What is this Blog about?

I have been struggling in the Maltese Family Court for my legitimate rights as a father for the past six years. Through this blog I intend to share my positive and negative experiences in this struggle.

Local scientific literature is filled with claims about the discrimination of women in our society. Indeed there is proof that women have suffered discrimination in the labour market, in terms of pay, promotions and job conditions. They also suffer as wives and mothers in the Maltese patriarchal family. Moreover, the Maltese Catholic church also discriminates against women by fomenting and consolidating the belief that women should be house, child, husband and elderly carers.

However, there is one area of Maltese democracy that is overtly discriminatory against men. This is the Maltese legal and judiciary system, wherein women still benefit from the age-old belief that they are the probable victims in most situations involving a man interacting with a woman. This is particularly true of the Maltese family court.

Indeed, a woman who wants to stop a marriage, perhaps because she is unable to live with a man, gains all the advantages of the separation. She almost always takes the better half of the cake. Above all, she becomes the custodian and carer of the children, takes half of the assets (including the house) and wins a monthly outrageous maintenance for her children and herself. The man becomes a part-time father in a continuous struggle to gain his fundamental right of bringing up his children.

Do you feel you are being discriminated? Please share your experiences.