What do they have planned for Family Court “reform”?
Kit Knightly
It was busy weekend for those who follow British family court law. Normally speaking I wouldn’t count myself among those people, but then social media and news headlines decided to ruin a decent Saturday by pouring a torrent of barely-disguised agenda over my head.
It all started when I saw this tweet:
10 babies per day are born in this country as a result of rape
Up until now, men can demand access to those children, retraumatising the mothers & endangering the children
The gov has listened & is stopping that.
I’m thrilled 🎉🎉🎉https://t.co/u3zXCULG51
— Natalie Fleet MP (@NatalieFleetMP) October 22, 2025
…which made my brain itch.
Consider: Ten babies per day is 3650 babies per year. In the UK there are roughly 600,000 births per year, and maybe 70,000 rapes.
If these numbers are correct, then over 1 in every 200 babies born in the UK (0.6%) are the result of rape, and 1 in every 20 rapes (5%) results in a full-term pregnancy.
It just doesn’t sound right, does it? And improbable statistics are always a horseman of an agenda.
Now, digging down into how these figures came about could be a rabbit hole in and of itself, including asking questions about the apparent 400% increase in rapes in the UK between 2011 and 2021, even as most other violent crimes go down. These statistics are telling a story that likely has little bearing on reality.
But in the end, it’s largely irrelevant. Even if the data is real, there’s no doubt the coordinated agenda rollout in the last week.
This leads us to the first law change of the long weekend, as reported in the Guardian:
In a government-backed amendment to the victims and courts bill, due to come before parliament on Monday 27 October, parental responsibility will automatically be restricted where a child is born of rape. New reforms will also see parental responsibility restricted when a parent is convicted of serious sex offences against any child, not just their own. It will mean sex offenders will no longer be able to intervene in decisions about medical care, schooling and overseas travel.
That’s change one.
Change two relates to the revocation of the “presumption of parental involvement”. Before now, British family courts worked under the assumption that contact with both parent was beneficial to children, unless proven otherwise. Changes in the law will now reverse this, from the government’s statement [emphasis added]:
If parents are thought to be a threat to their child’s safety, involvement in their lives can be restricted, for example through courts ordering supervised contact, involvement limited to written communication, or by ordering that there should be no involvement at all.
Note that it’s thought to be, NOT proven to be. A very important difference.
The third change, which was apparently a total coincidence, involved the overturning of a family court verdict by throwing out the testimony of “unregulated expert” Melanie Gill.
Gill is a psychologist specialising in “parental alienation”, where one parent turns the children against the other usually through spurious stories of abusive behaviour. Gill has testified in hundreds of cases, many of which will now be thrown out, because “narcissist” is a “gendered label”:
Just when I thought the harm in our family courts couldn’t get any worse.
Unregulated “experts” like Melanie Gill have no place influencing decisions about children.
Terms like “alienation” and “narcissist” are too often gendered labels aimed at mothers.
This is a crisis. https://t.co/QTitJEedEf
— Dr Charlotte Proudman (@DrProudman) October 23, 2025
Essentially, this creates an environment where mothers are incentivised to allege abuse and fathers can no longer respond with counter-allegations of “parental alienation” because it’s sexist.
All of this leads up to today’s session of the Parliamentary Committee to discuss “reform” of the family court. Beginning as I type this.
There is a febrile atmosphere around these issues that’s throwing up bizarre takes left and right. Suicides “linked to” abuse should be “investigated as homicides”. Pardon murderers because they were abuse victims.
I can already see, in my mind’s eye, the outraged comments. “Why is Kit going in to bat for rapists and abusers?”
To which the only answer is “I’m not.”
I’m just aware of the fluid dynamics of definitions. I know how malleable language can be, and that “domestic abuse” and “rape” are as susceptible to to strategic redefinition as “far-right”, “hate speech” and “domestic terrorism” were before.
After all, once you’ve “changed the law to protect children from abusive parents”, you can set about changing what “abusive” means.
In the end, is this all really about domestic abuse, protecting children or feminism?
No, I don’t think so. I think this is about inflating the role of the state in children’s lives, camouflaged in gender politics designed to turn mothers and fathers against each other.
I think it’s about perpetuating the war on the cohesive family unit and increasing single-parent families, in the knowledge that single parents will be more likely to rely on state assistance and less able to resist over-reaching rules and regulations.
Remember, it is already illegal to take your children out of school without permission in the UK. We also have the pending “Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill” looming on the horizon and the introduction of “breakfast clubs” making parents reliant on schools to feed their children.
It’s also very important to note that, though the press and pundits are all talking about these issues entirely in terms of fathers and domestic abuse, the actual laws being changed do not get that specific, to quote the government again…
If parents are thought to be a threat to their child’s safety, involvement in their lives can be restricted, for example through courts ordering supervised contact, involvement limited to written communication, or by ordering that there should be no involvement at all.
It doesn’t mention fathers or mothers, only parents. It doesn’t specify domestic or sexual abuse; it just says “safety”.
Can you think of any large groups of parents in recent years who, for one very specific reason, may have been “thought to be a threat to their child’s safety?”
I’ll give you a clue, it starts with an “A” and ends with “nti-vaxxers”.
Should we trust any laws that undermine the right of the parent by assuming the state has responsibility for our children?
No, I don’t think so.
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If 1 in 20 rapes results in a live birth, you’d have to postulate that well over 50% of raped women were not using any form of birth control.
Using rounded figures, 18-25% of raped women will see sperm available to fertilise a new egg (5-7 day window each ovulation cycle), unless rapists have a magical ability to zone in on women about to release an egg.
Then you must factor in the natural failure of many conceptions in the first few weeks of pregnancy. Factor in that some rapists may have a low sperm count. Factor in some women having abortions.
When you compound all those factors there must be an awful lot of women not on the pill etc.
I’m uncertain if this has any bearing on Kit’s thesis, or some of the broader discussion considerations raised in the comment section, but the topic of “human self-domestication” has been turning up in my ‘feed’ of Google-recommended content.
Anyone interested in eugenics, whether for purely esoteric enquiry or pragmatic social-engineering considerations will find the material fascinating.
AI is freaking me out man!
The more you use AI the more you will lose your mind. You still have a choice….
Its quite simpe. AI is what is says, Artificial Intelligence.
Articificial Intelligence is like Artificial silicone tits, Artificial dildos, Artificial Lolita dolls. Artificial News (your TV).
When you know this, you just look at your Iphone, Apple Computer, Automatization, Robots, ChatGTP, whatever within that genre as all artificial.
Real life is outside in the 3 dimension, where the wind blows and your 5 senses are in use.
Can you mentally differ between the 2 you can also control it mentally.
The danger is only if you let yourself be forced into thinking AI is the big deal.
Wouldn’t mind giving one of those artificial dolls a run for its money. ‘Cept to spare myself the indignation of resorting to a ‘lolita’ model, I’d have to go with a ‘mature’ model with a bit of sag 😉
Being a backcountry loner, I see where you’re coming from. But for basic Internet, I don’t subscribe to cable or internet television service ‘cos the content is shit. Much prefer to search for content on any of the number of video hosting services – most universities and a handful of foundations post decent lecture and debate content. I do also enjoy dilettante content produced by enthusiast creators.
Of course, this leaves me at a disadvantage when the topic of is raised by colleagues.
Good day to you sir. I hope the day is sunny for you wherever you might find yourself.
We all need some pragmatism. In ancient days they were forced to monotone work in the industry to get a salary.
Today some are forced to look into a TV screen from when they wake up until they go to sleep to earn a buck.
But its important to be mentally aware of it.
If you look at the new statistics, Foster children are now being fostered by same-sex couples.
It’s a win-win for the SS ( Social Services, Children Services).
Take from the poor and give to the bizarre behavioured rich.
If only the foster children gets money, then it is ok.
What do they have planned for Family Court “reform”?
from the same fear porn rage bait sequel of theyre coming for your stoves!
Usual deflection articles to shill n deflect what is really happening,
like a huge shut down and people being furloughed and project 2025 in full steam.
worthless eaters on benefits can fuck go them selves as alt media plus is
sucking cooperate cock.
Such eloquence, such finesse,
such resentment.
Find some good weed amigo🤪
Good article. Hats off to Kit for tackling another hot potato.
A couple of points…
Most wouldn’t. But these “courts” are nothing like what one would conceive a court to be. They are absurdly Kafkaesque, corrupt to the core, and should be abolished.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Gulag-Family-Courts-Jack-Frost/dp/1430316357
UK Column has published a number of pieces on these “courts”.
https://www.ukcolumn.org/video/the-gulag-of-the-family-courts-with-sam-nass
…But that is feminism.
The feminist whose tweet is quoted in the article would have no problem at all with that.
People still don’t understand what feminism is and always was. At no point in its history was it ever benign. Anyone who still thinks otherwise should look at the meticulous work of Professor Janice Fiamengo: she was formerly a feminist (as many of us once were), but was slowly awakened to the malignant nature of the movement in which she was involved and has subsequently spent years delving into its history.
http://blog.studiobrule.com/2022/01/feminism-was-never-about-equality.html
Feminism was always about turning women against men, smashing apart the family unit, and replacing the father with the State as protector and provider.
Feminism was always a central component of the agenda to manipulate and control us all. It was a weapon in the hands of the ruling cabal.
And the fact that even today people cannot see this shows just how effective it has been.
Around 1968 and after, they went politically from a society sustained by the family, to a society sustained by the State.
Saying that all legislation during these years were politically changed to this ideological construct:
Away from family dependence where only Dad worked and paid 1×25% tax, to State dependence Social welfare, Unions, Mom and Dad worked both 8-16 to pay 2×50% tax.
Maybe it was a financial construct as so much else. I dont know the reason.
In Scotland its colonial administration are utterly obsessed with gender and trans rights – even though people who perceive themselves the opposite see than what they were born have exactly the same rights as those who don’t.
The problems are many – men dressed as women -and women dressed as men – want access to toilets and safe spaces gym rooms etc of the opposite sex and they’re getting it.
This access has now skilled over into multiple field’s including sports and women only events and to speak out about you could find yourself arrested and charged with a hate crime – the crime of pointing out the inconvenient truth.
The West and much of the rest of the world is in the process of denying reality on what the definition of men and women are.
All’s not well in the land of the brave. We have massive problems with obesity, drugs, drink, diet, and a serious lack of brain cells in the common sense part of the brain. We laugh at disability and mock those who try hard. We are envious of those who succeed, especially our friends.
When it comes to seeing through the corporate lies, we haven’t a clue. We are first in line for our COVIDS and boosters. Queues form outside our pharmacy for drug addiction meds and more pills. Our kids don’t go out and play and are addicted to phones and screens.
Our politicians are greedy, thieving bstrds.
The national football team is pish. And their manager couldn’t buy a smile.
We are finished, my friend
China! China stole our freedom through silent weapons for quiet wars.
Today America are on running wheels and all in China drive around as Easy Riders on stolen our Harvey Davidson 1500 cubic technology.
Where US before had 90& freedom and China 10%, this has now changed so America now only has 30% and China 70% freedom.
A cheeseburger, a running wheel, and plastic wares is all they left to America, while all US technology, our dollares and gold were being transferred out of the country behind the curtain!
‘Greedy, thieving bastards’
That’s putting It mildly.
Trump but the brakes on this insanity, despite all his other insanity.
Not another Georgi.mc… oh PLEASE , 🙏
* FFS, Subjective * Bs. this cannot be.
😂 Are you paid or simply automated ?✋
They have no courts, their ‘courts’ are just Commercial Administrative Hearings with no standing in Law = they have no jurisdiction over flesh and blood men and women! Their jurisdiction is only over citizen slaves or those that consent to be governed by them.
Acts, Statutes and Mandates are NOT LAWS!!! Acts, Statutes and Mandates are Adhesion Contracts only binding on those who are stupid enough to sign or comply!
Unless you have committed A CRIME = THAT IS, CAUSED PHYSICAL INJURY OR FINANCIAL LOSS TO ANOTHER, their mickey mouse Acts, Statutes, Mandates and phony Warrants and/or Bans are not worth the paper they are written on!!!
Learn Who You Are and Set Yourself Free:
https://odysee.com/@TruthIsKingVideos:d/Learn-Who-You-Are-and-Set-Yourself-Free:9
You need to start thinking for yourself. This freeman-on-the-land nonsense is hopium that ends up getting people more severe sentences in court.
The elites write the laws – they are not bound by them. They have the guns and the media to turn your neighbours against you.
Commercial Law is nothing to do with Freeman-on-the-land, which is Common Law based. Do your research instead of making ignorant comments.
Yer’e, well ,before the Europeans Colonized the place there were Free Men and Women all over the Continent.There is so much more to unpack here,how free were they really,well maybe climate,geography,water etc had a say in how free they were,meanwhile we in Oz just throw 380 billion your way,that we really cannot afford to do ,anyway I’m waffling on…..
Wherever there was the power of Rome, whether militaristic or religious, there was no freedom. Europe has always been enslaved. Britain was the only Common Law land and with Habeas Corpus (innocent before proven guilty).
State backed ‘mums’ of all kinds, inc. The Unkind…
Fathers naturally irritated.
What could possibly go wrong…?
Balkydj
introduction of “breakfast clubs” making parents reliant on schools to feed their children.
The breakfast club’s been in private schools for a long time ; busy high-achiever mummies and daddies couldn’t wait to drop the kids off on the way to work, earlier the better.
High capacity , Fiat ? 😂
“I think it’s about perpetuating the war on the cohesive family unit and increasing single-parent families, in the knowledge that single parents will be more likely to rely on state assistance and less able to resist over-reaching rules and regulations.”
So very true.
Swathes of the country are no longer recognisable and this is all by design. In ‘mixed’ areas you rarely see people socialising on their street, which is definitely a thing in British culture. Culture, family, identity, all destroyed by design. No unity and thus no resistance then. Sickening.
No more Pub.. . No more Social.
Secure state control, with
absence of Bodily Sovereignty,
By any Means , inc.Jurisdiction
No holds barred.
Inhuman Disgrace.
To busy on the internet moaning about less human contact.
Useless to fight it: Britain is going down, one way or another. Better to accept.
GB used to rule the waves, soon the waves (of aliens) will rule GB.
The EU is on similar track, lost cause. Cold self destruction, better than hot war. Making place for something very different, unfamiliar but better in the end. It won’t be what your mind expects at all, many Asians will be as surprised as you.
This Asian century is not confined to PR China at all. Asia is big and gets its turn now after Europe and the US.
You are right. Asia is paradise all over.
Looks like a Muslim paradise: 72 young whores…
I think Thailand are Buddha. But if you are used to banging girls in Muslim countries……..ehhh. What to say?
Nah. They’re waiting for their most frequent customers;
Fat, white, loud, sexually frustrated drunks from Australia, Europe and the US.
… and Canada please
You counted them too?
Could be worse.
Much, much worse.
Look what the WHITE EMPIRE OF FILTHY EVIL did in Vietnam and Cambodia:
https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/10/toxic-stew-chemicals-poisons-sprays-nanoparticles-vocs-pfass-and-the-evil-monsters-cooking-up-this-brew/
Yuuus sirSorros, ’twas to be expected in the CONTINUATION of the OPIUM WARS ,
Started by whom & for whom.. .
The Bells Toll. ! 😂
Irresistibly,
Greetings,
Balkydj
Please note, seriously, the lack of any question ⁉️ marked, being the key indicator of pre_determining…
Onwards, from reality & putting ourselves in Asian Shoes 👟 better than air filled Jordans ‘.Nike…
Gotta’ luv’ Skeechers with memory foam , to maintain Grip.
Until Asia Rises, in peoples’ mind, this world 🌍 FUKUS …
Divide and rule, divide and rule.
The authoritarian $uiturd$ get their jollies with this stuff.
“Look! We’re doing something. Don’t forget to vote for us again and again and again”
Live by the book, die by the book
I was born in a very poor family,
there werent any ‘family units’ in those days…
Here is a song for you to your bottle of booze. https://youtu.be/uUu2HhsYeIQ .
“They hate you if you are clever, give you red down votes, and they despise the fool, until your so fucking crazy, you cant follow their rules”.
Could you explain what you said so I can downvote you
We were so poor, sometimes we went for weeks, months even, without any take away junk food.
Just home cooked tucker.
And loaves of Hovis bread.
Good one
If only we have had cooked tucker we would have been happy man.
Agree 100%. It is an infamous system trying to divide and conquer the family unit, rather than supporting it.
Happily we still have countries left on this planet who praise the family structure, – because a child need both a father and a mother to grow up as a whole person.
“what God has united, man must not divide!”.
They’ve been breaking down the family unit (mother father children) in Britain for years now – many of the political parties have taken bungs from the companies that produce hormones – and as a result – the trans- gender agenda has been in full swing for a few years now – young children who act like young children if they even mention they want to change gender, (Christ I wanted to be a a T-Rex when I was little it doesn’t me I actually wanted to be one) are being given the drugs to do so behind their parents back – schools allow the child to call itself by either its new female name, or male name – again without telling the parents, many British politicians are to afraid to say what the definition of a woman is – for fear of upsetting the trans-mob or their corporate buddies – who supply the drugs that are given to kids and young confused adults.
Its a complete and utter mess – the emperor has no clothes on scenario – doesn’t even come close to madness that wokerati are forcing on us – there’s going to be a helluva lot of angry adults in years to come who will be asking – why was I allowed to take such life changing drugs.
All of this gender agenda and redefining what acceptable parenting is has led to the increased accessibility of young children to the pedophiles that run this world. They want your children and want you unable to fight back against them. This is finally coming out and it may be a vain hope but I am actually beginning to believe there may be some real exposures in my lifetime.
Yes that’s very true – now men who are arrested (if at all) for sexually abusing children – some of them identify as women and they are sent to women’s prison where they you guessed it – rape women inmates – then we have school with what is called gender neutral toilets, where both boys and girls do there business right next to each other.
Many British police forces even have their own LGBTI+ officers who dance and cavort with LGBTI+ members on marches – as well as attending, what has been thrust upon us as “hate crimes” a hate crime is a calling a man dressed as a woman a man – and get this, if a person doesn’t want to report a so called “hate crime” another person can do it for them without their knowledge or consent.
The psychos who rule wouldn’t know what a real family is.
The psychos who rule wouldn’t know about Love.
The psychos who rule were raised in cold, hard, ambition polluted, Love-less homes.
That’s why they’re PSYCHOS.
The psychos who rule the world – don’t know what the value of anything is, all about power and control for them – in their eyes we are nothing but commodities to be used and then disposed of.
A child raised in isolation with only mother and father, in a ranch or in a city flat, will turn out just as bad. Human beings need small tight communities and children need other adults and children around, outside school. The western nuclear family unit often fails to produce emotionally healthy individuals because it is alienated from genuine human community.
JudeoChristian (settler/ urbanite) values such as the isolated nuclear family unit are being demolished because they were inhuman and unnatural to begin with, and adopted by human cultures through force, after centuries of genocide.
I agree in your first section, dont understand what you mean in the second section. I kept my own until they were 2 years old.
Then I could feel they got so passionate when they met other small children at 2-3-4 years of age, so it was necessary to leave them into a kindergarten which was a major success.
Yes, they need other children to develop.
Pakistani rape gangs, however, will go scot-free and get complete access to their progeny. Because racism.
Thank you, Kit for keeping the eyes (of the mind) open.
I downvote by default all the long comments, we need to have opinions which can be expressed in a few sentences, not in Roger Martin du Gard novels
Sometimes, sometimes, we need a little more than just a headline on the frontpage 😇 .
Then better write an article
You should go to twatter/X
Whenever you get an alt-media wannabe Lois Lane’s saying reform in law,
rest assured they’re late to the party by 5-10+ years, as it was already tested on poor, elderly, disabled individuals long before they bothered to care to look.
The body running courts in England and Wales has been accused of a cover-up, after a leaked report found it took several years to react to an IT bug that caused evidence to go missing, be overwritten or appear lost.
Sources within HM Courts & Tribunals Service (HMCTS) say that as a result, judges in civil, family and tribunal courts will have made rulings on cases when evidence was incomplete.
The internal report, leaked to the BBC, said HMCTS did not know the full extent of the data corruption, including whether or how it had impacted cases, as it had not undertaken a comprehensive investigation.
It also found judges and lawyers had not been informed, as HMCTS management decided it would be “more likely to cause more harm than good”.
HMCTS says its internal investigation found no evidence that “any case outcomes were affected as a result of these technical issues”.
However, the former head of the High Court’s family division, Sir James Munby, told the BBC the situation was “shocking” and “a scandal”.
The bug was found in case-management software used by HMCTS, the Ministry of Justice agency which administers many courts in England and Wales, and tribunals across the UK.
The software – known variously as Judicial Case Manager, MyHMCTS or CCD – is used to manage evidence and track cases before the courts. It is used by judges, lawyers, case workers and members of the public.
Documents seen by the BBC show it caused data to be obscured from view, meaning medical records, contact details and other evidence were sometimes not visible as part of case files used in court.
The Social Security and Child Support Tribunal – which handles benefit appeals – is thought to have been most affected.
More: Courts service ‘covered up’ IT bug that caused evidence to go missing
Update: Former justice secretary: HMCTS case-management software problem could be compared to the Horizon Post Office scandal
If they really cared about children, family and parents would they want to regulate this AI Chatbot DISRUPTion of childhood? …
https://themostimportantnews.com/archives/millions-of-americas-teens-are-being-seduced-by-ai-chatbots
From the link: “Even now, more than 50 percent of the articles that are being published on the Internet are being written by AI.“
As example I take the Whiteheads articles here as written by AI, I can feel it all the way in my bone these articles are artificial.
And its back to this:
Once you register the childs birth it becomes a legal person, (a corporate entity) to which the crown is trustee. You have given your child away as a bonded slave, traded on the financial markets as a commodity.
Parents have no rights as we are all a debt security created by the bankers and their puppet politicians.
Ehhh ok. But what about the real world?
Will you keep your children from getting a birth certificate where his legal father and mother are stated?
Ok no certificate, and so what? Will you and your baby hide in the woods from the usury Bank of England?
All right you, mama and your child(en) are now in the woods with your “rights” a long way from the bad bad guys,………… and you are happy yes?
Sorry to bother with real life.
Erik. You are correct, of course. No birth certificate means no job, no passport, no driving licence, no living in the corporate world. But people need to know the truth. There is no freedom, no democracy, no truth, no justice, nothing. We are all slaves to the bankers; our politicians have sold us all into slavery for some power and a backhander.
But to know we can represent our fiction as and when we want and to know we aren’t responsible, as the crown, as the trustee of our estate is the responsible entity. Is a massive statement.
The registration process is always a fraud. So beware every time you are told to register anything.
Its simply time to start throwing people under the bus, so give me the news, I got a strong case of moving west young man.
You have a point. We need a real-life solution to circumventing this horrid system.
Lo and behold for you and the 2 government trolls with the thumbs down.
Name
Address
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To: [Court Name]
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Case / Citation Number: [Insert Number]
NOTICE OF NON-ACCEPTANCE OF TERMS “YOU” AND “PERSON”
To the Honorable Court:
Declaration:
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