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‘Do We Cherish All Our Children Equally?’
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event notice 
Thursday September 28, 2006 21:05
by Labour Equality - ‘Do We Cherish All Our Children Equally?’
"Labour Equality" will hold an Open Day Seminar entitled ‘Do We Cherish All Our Children Equally?’ on Sat 30th September 11 am in the Teachers’ Club, 36 Parnell Square, Dublin 2
Labour Equality Open Day Seminar
‘Do We Cherish All Our Children Equally?’
Sat 30th September 11 am
Teachers’ Club, 36 Parnell Square, Dublin 2
Does our constitution give our children equal protection?
Where are the gaps?
Why do we have child poverty?
How about children and education?
What happens to our immigrant children?
What if you are here but they want you or your family to leave?
Where do you stand when you have two Dads? Or two Mums?
Programme
10.30am Registration
11.00am – 1pm Speakers :
* Joe Costello TD : Opening Address
* Jillian van Turnhout, CEO Children’s Rights Alliance
‘Is Our Constitution Good Enough for Our Children?’
* June Tinsley Barnardos
‘Barnardos Advocacy Campaign – the Equality Perspective’
* Kerry O’Leary CADIC Coalition and
* Judy Irwin Refugee Information Service Galway, CADIC Coalition
‘Separated Families of Irish Children’
* Joan O’Connell KAL Initiative
‘The KAL Case in Context’
Questions & Answers
1pm Light Lunch
2pm Workshops
1. Labour LGBT ‘Rhetoric & Reality’
2. Labour Disability (optional workshop) ‘Barcelona Declaration’
3. Labour Diversity Emer Nowlan : ‘Teaching in a Vacuum : BilingualChildren in Dublin Schools’
4. Poverty and Inequality John Baker, Equality Studies, UCD ‘Poverty and Inequality’
3pm Plenary
4pm Closing
Comments (2 of 2)
Jump To Comment: 1 2The Irish constitution professes to guarantee that the state will cherish all Irish children equally. What it actually means is that the state cherishes the children of married couples and single parents while disowning those of co-habitating couples. How, simple by not allowing said couples to transfer unused tax allowances which in effect means that in such cases the mother is denied the right to stay at home and care for her children another right guaranteed under the so called constitution, because her partner is only allowed a single persons tax allowance. This drastically reduces the take home pay of such families and thus denies their children many opportunities and benefits enjoyed by others.
This is just one point ,there are hundreds of examples of the state's shamefull treatment of hundreds of thousands of Irish children.
The Irish Constitution is not the constitution of the people of Ireland, It is the constitution of the Catholic Church in Ireland.
Ernst
Just to respond to Ernst
The Irish constitution does not profess to guarantee that the state will cherish all Irish children equally - this was in the Irish Proclamation of Independence adpated in 1916 at the Easter rising.
Children living in all families other than that of a married couple are all at a disadvantage and can be discriminated against because of this.
I totally totally agree with you otherwise.
We need to change this constitution to recognise the realities of family life and childrens lives in Ireland
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