Japan Tries to Fix a Child Custody System Under Fire From All Sides
Thanks to sole custody, limited visitation and weak courts, kids are often estranged from one parent. But opponents of reform say some proposed changes could make matters worse. By Marika Katanuma January 24, 2023 at 10:00 PM GMT+2 Yasuo Hojyo was home alone when his wife and five-year-old son appeared in the doorway. He said the […]
US father’s battle to find missing children in South Korea
American fathers cry foul over S. Korea’s ‘inaction’ on overseas child abduction by former spouses
American father’s battle to find missing children in Korea
US father’s battle to find missing children in South Korea
‘Bring my child back’: American fathers cry foul
‘Whoever abducts first wins’: Why Japan won’t allow this Australian mother to see her children
Catherine Henderson says she hasn’t spoken with her two teenage children since they were abducted by their father over three years ago; something that’s legal under Japan’s custody system. Catherine Henderson with her two children and then husband in 2011. This image has been digitally altered. Credit: Supplied. Watch the documentary ‘Japan’s Taken Children’ at 9.30pm Tuesday […]
News Roundup: How Significant is the Ministry of Justice’s Joint Custody Proposal?
Vincent Fichot believes not very, stating that it’s nothing more than “window dressing” BY MATTHEW HERNON JUNE 24, 2022 UPDATED ON JUNE 24, 2022 Reports by the Mainichi Shimbun and Nikkei daily on Monday revealed that the Ministry of Justice (MOJ) is preparing a joint custody proposal for divorced couples with children in Japan. It sounds like great news at last for […]
Lebanese father speaks about alleged abduction
Beirut – 20 April 2016 1. Ali El Amine, Lebanese father of two children at the heart of custody dispute, UPSOUND (Arabic): “I’m not ready to say anything right now.” 2. SOUNDBITE (English) Ali El Amine, Lebanese father of two children at the heart of custody dispute: “From day one I said I have nothing […]
‘I’m taking the kids’: There are 250 international parental abductions involving Canadians
When Kristen Allen’s former partner and her six-year-old daughter failed to arrive at the airport in Toronto one fateful evening in August 2018, her heart sank. Deep down, she knew her ex-boyfriend, John Varga Cuevas, had taken their daughter, Tatianna, and he wouldn’t be back. “I knew that he would take her,” she told CTVNews.ca […]
