SLAMS COURTS, MHR rrotester crusa HE {S on a crusade to save children from what he says is the social devastation wrought by Ministry of Human Resources (MHR) child custody policies and B.C.'s ward- ship legislation. Vern Dillabaugh recently brought that crusade to the doors of the North Shore News. Driving a battered, graffitti covered °74 Fiat, the $4-year-old Mission man erected signs on Lonsdale sidewalks condemning social workers and MHR for what he says is the thoughtless separa- tion of children from their parents through custody settlements and child seizures by the ministry. “We are killing children because we don’t like the pareni,”* Dillabaugh said. A father of three, Dillabaugh said his I1-year-old son and eight-year-old twin daughters lost their father through a court custody decision three years ago. He said a court order has prevenied him from seeing his children ever since. JAIL TIME Dillabaugh has defied that order in the past and has spent time in jail because of that defiance. For the past 13 months, he, along with travelling companian Erna Schapansky, has driven across B.C. and Ass. la trying to raise awareness of what he says is the plight of children separated from one or both parents. Disruption of the parent-child bending is the major cause of youth suicide and ‘a horror story beyond comprehension,’’ Dillabaugh said. Canadian juries, he said, award custody of children to mothers in 97 per cent of the child custody As fashior's for both inen and women climb to new body- revealing heights, so does sell- consciousness. Nothing can ruin sensual looks or destroy con- fidence, more than bothersome facial and body hair. By permanenily re noving hair with elecirolysis, men and women may never again have to face the embarrassing problem of excess body hair. Time- consuming struggles with tem- porary methods such as shaving, waxing, tweezing and depilitories are eliminated forever. Keep the summer time look all year round. Maria Stafford Cartifled Electrologist T.AP.E. B.C. AS.S. North Shore Electrolysis Clinic Room 217B Medical Dental Building 1940 Lonsdale, North Vancouver 980-2022 929-4468 (res.) Bs TIMOTHY RENSHAW News Reporter “But ] have no argument with that. What J am saying is, award the child to the most sharing parent.” Hardest hit through the severing of the parent-child bond, accor- ding to Dillabaugh, are native In- dians. He cited what he called ‘ta ‘60s sweep” by MHR officials through Indian reserves as being directly responsible for alcoholism, suicide and other manifestations of ‘“‘mourning lJoss’> among young semi-orphaned natives today. In addition to suicide, children who become semi or fully orphan- ed are prone to outbursts of un- controllable rage that lead to murders and other criminal activi- ties, according to Dillabaugh. Partial or total parent-child bond breaking, whether practised by parent or MHR, he said, should be prosecuted under section 200 of the Canadian Criminal Code. The section states that, ‘‘Every one who unlawfully abandons or exposes a child who is under the age of 10 years, so that its life is or is likely to be endangered or its health is likely to be permanently injured, is guilty of an indictable for two years.” offence and liable to imprisonment But Minister of the Attorney NEWS photo Stuart Davis MISSION residents Vern Dillabaugh and Erna Schapansky brought their crusade for children to the doors of the North Shore News recently. The two are fighting for the overhaul of B.C.'s child custody laws. 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