Even Michele Asselin This is Me

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1. 1. QuebecDivorceLawyer.com - Andrew H. Heft In The News

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   Published on: 5/12/2002   Last Visited: 2/4/2008

   Even Michele Asselin, president of the Federation des Femmes du Quebec, the province's largest women's group, agrees there can be "cases of injustice" involving fathers unfairly treated by the system.
   
   But the fact that most couples agree on custody shows the system works, she says. "You can't use some isolated cases to say the system has a built-in bias against fathers," she says.
   ...
   Asselin, of the women's federation, also insists judges should look at a child's interest above a parent's, "while favouring participation of both parents" and taking into account the fact that over the past 30 years, fathers have "taken a bigger and bigger role in the education of their children."

2. 2. www.qdl.ca

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   Published on: 5/12/2002   Last Visited: 5/14/2007

   Even Michele Asselin, president of the Federation des Femmes du Quebec, the province's largest women's group, agrees there can be "cases of injustice" involving fathers unfairly treated by the system.
   
   But the fact that most couples agree on custody shows the system works, she says. "You can't use some isolated cases to say the system has a built-in bias against fathers," she says.
   ...
   Asselin, of the women's federation, also insists judges should look at a child's interest above a parent's, "while favouring participation of both parents" and taking into account the fact that over the past 30 years, fathers have "taken a bigger and bigger role in the education of their children."