Thanks for doing the interview with Mr. Murray Wood—I am yet another one of a growing number of left-behind parents (usually fathers) who knows the heartbreaking and destructive experience that results from international parental child abduction.

My ex-wife, also a Japanese national, abducted my son nearly two years ago. California courts offer little or no recourse (BTW, I am male, so I am at an added disadvantage in California family courts!), and of course we all know that Japanese courts aren’t very effective when it comes to family law (and treating foreigners fairly). So, basically I’ve had to go it alone…It’s been very hard for both my son and I.

Granted, my situation is not as bad as Mr. Wood’s and other people’s situations I have known and read about—I have been able to have some contact with my son, but short periods of visitation are no substitute for day-to-day father-son interaction, no matter what the anti-male, anti-family feminazis say. All I can do is my best for me and my son—I keep my head up, even on days when it seems like there is no hope.

Anyway, good on you for giving us left-behind parents (most of us fathers) a voice in the face of so much injustice and tyranny. Hopefully someday we can be reunited with our children, who need us just as much as we need them.

Thanks

Tom