UK - Electronic Tagging Mothers Not Likely To Become Law

I've written before about proposals in the UK to electronically tag mothers who, for whatever reason, do not abide by visitation contact orders. I had said that it is unlikely to pass because it is too punitive.

Well, it looks like I was right. MPs in the UK are probably going to drop that one. It has been seen as "humiliating." Tagging has also been viewed as "'disproportionate' and could be particularly difficult for the child." Instead, a "time and place requirement" [may] be imposed by the courts to help make an existing order work - perhaps by ensuring a parent is at an agreed place at a set time to allow contact."

Tagging moms and moms who supposedly don't allow court-ordered visitation has received a lot of media attention. The UK family law reforms don't pay as much mind to enforcing visitation when dad doesn't abide by his own orders. The media also hasn't paid attention to that issue. What about concern for the children who sit in the living room, with their bags packed, wondering why daddy doesn't show up? How about some punitive rules to make those fathers abide by their visitation that gets the same amount of attention as mothers who don't abide by visitation orders?