Letter: Father's way.

AFTER reading your piece on Sir Bob Geldof on Monday, June 17, I couldn't wait to see the programme.

I am a single parent with two lovely young children. The problem is I am not allowed to see my children, even though for three years I have been fighting to see them.

Before the split from my wife, I had changed my hours so my wife could work during the day.

I worked from 3pm until midnight. I looked after my kids every day, getting them ready for school, cleaning them, feeding them and very much loving them.

The split came as a surprise to me. I suffered from depression and, as a result, was banned by the courts from seeing my kids.

Even three years down the road and, despite being cleared by a number of psychiatrists, the court still bans me from seeing my kids.

It is not just me who loses out.

My two kids also have a grandmother, aunties, uncles, godfathers and godmothers, friends, cousins and nieces who are also missing out.

For the sake of all these, as well as me, I would wish for the law to be in more support of the father.

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