BEING A FATHER

MEN ONLY HEROES WHEN THEY MURDER FOR THE STATE
war victims The hypocritical bastards that are all part of the state propaganda machine that includes the media, judiciary, MP's , councillors, royalty, church ministers and a myriad of organisations that perpetuate the lies that men are only worthy of being praised as heroes when they are either shooting men, women and children in a foreign land or worse using bombs to blow them to smithereens.

Any other time the same lackeys who are all part of a masonic agenda to smear men as abusers of their ex-wives and children , were a raised voice to a partner or child is enough for these hypocrites to class most decent men as not worthy of respect when they separate .

For any man who has been at the brunt of these vile bastards and endlessly battling in courts to fight the allegations used as a means to separate a man from all his assets , home and children it is sickening to watch the military being constantly classed as heroes while they are busy murdering for the state .

This while decent men are tarred as abusers and the same STATE thugs are helping themselves to our worldly possessions. It is long overdue that decent men start fighting back against the utter scum and dregs of the earth who have taken over the role of overseers of what is morally right and wrong and who are the biggest hypocrites on the planet. This is a WARNING to any femi-loving men who join in the smearing of good men to satisfy the State and crown mafia that abuse ALL our rights in their very warped perspective of what is decent and good and what REAL men are going to take on and stop these utter filth from pumping out propaganda on a regular basis.

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    WHAT A PIECE OF SH*T IS MAN
    "Men have all the power" - a common feminist slogan.

    In our prisons "men have all the power". But they wield it, by and large, over men!

    In our police force "men have all the power". But they wield it, by and large, over men!

    In our legal system and our government, "men have all the power". But they wield it, by and large, over men!

    In our society "men have all the power"! But they wield it, by and large, over men!

    The idea that "men have all the power" is therefore nonsense given that to the extent that there is any power, it is wielded mostly over men.

    Have you ever seen chimpanzees and how they behave?

    The alpha males have all the power, but they get all the goodies too!

    The other males are kept well in line!

    With violence and intimidation.

    And have you ever thought about soldiers fighting in wars through time immemorial?

    The male generals and the male politicians have all the power - yes indeed - but it is thousands upon thousands of more ordinary men who will have to pay the price of it.

    Are You A Man?

    If someone identifies themselves with their colour - black, say - well, that's OK. Fair enough.

    If they identify themselves with their being gay, that's acceptable. That's fair enough too.

    If they see themselves as Jews or Muslims or Christians, or, indeed, of any main religion, well, that's completely acceptable.

    People get a lot of pride from these things.

    And, of course, any woman who sees herself, primarily, as a woman, has got it made. But what about a man who sees himself, well, as a man?

    Well, he's either naff, a bigot of some kind, or some violent piece of machismo who's thick and drinks beer - at the very least. Why is this so?

    Well, for the past three decades, white, heterosexual males have been the targets of many EXTREMELY POWERFUL groups. They have been constantly accused of being racist by highly vocal racial activists and racial minorities, and their history and their forefathers have been thoroughly undermined and blackened - and to the extent that many racial activists are now demanding reparations for past slavery. They have been continually portrayed as being violent and oppressors of their women by influential vindictive feminists and their gullible followers.

    They have been represented by the beautifully orchestrated gay lobby as being bigoted and fearful of their own sexuality. They have been assaulted ceaselessly by children's welfare groups that seek funding and the growth of their empires by indoctrinating the population with the view that all men are likely abusers of children. The feminist-dominated mainstream media have consistently sought to demonise and to humiliate the entire male gender.

    The legal profession and the all-powerful government have almost disempowered men completely when it comes to their families, their relationships and their homes. And, in both America and Europe, self-serving politicians have been passing the authority of men to govern themselves into the hands of the faceless and unaccountable bureaucrats in the Federal government and in Brussels respectively.

    No wonder, therefore, that white heterosexual men dare not identify themselves as men. After all, what man wants to identify himself with the type of person who is continually being portrayed as the lowest and most unpleasant form of human being that exists?

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    SHOULD A FATHER BE HIS SON'S BEST FRIEND?
    father and son In addition to the following article we recommend any father struggling with issues with their own children, but especially their sons, that they STICK TO THEIR GUNS. A fathers role is to ensure wayward sons are NOT allowed to take a destructive course through life but take whatever steps to ensure THEY KNOW DAMN WELL that you are NOT happy about how they behave and how they treat you and others around them. This may be some of the most difficult decisions a father has to make but what is MUCH WORSE is condoning the disruptive and dysfunctional behaviour of your offspring just to get PEACE.

    Your children , especialy your sons should be a reflection of you as a father and by supporting BAD behaviour you are providing the wrong message to rebelliousness against you as a father. There are many men distanced from their sons through these tensions but unless common ground can be had between a father and his son NOTHING can be accomplished. When a son loses the respect of his father and that is usually when a father GIVES IN to his demands that can be difficult to restore, so any father experiencing these trials and tribulations should give careful thought to the repercussions of making rash moves when dealing with a son who continually shows dissent to your views. Sometimes distancing yourself from that negativity may be the only way sometimes of coping with sons who are determined to ignore your advice and guidance. Any father stuggling with these issues can write to us HERE .

    Is a father's job to be his son's friend or to keep him on the straight and narrow? by Henry Makow Ph.D.

    I am not the greatest father and I don't expect my father to be great either.

    He overcame many more obstacles than I ever did. His parents were murdered by the Nazis when he was 19. He faced a monumental challenge to survive the war and build a new life in a new country. He married and had a family before he was ready. Nevertheless, through his intelligence, courage, and hard work, he not only survived but prospered. He is 87 now. I am 61. I salute him on Father's Day. My problem is that he was always a father, never a friend. I know the orthodox view is that fathers should not be friends. "It is the job of parents to see that the [societal] barriers hold," W. Cleon Skousen writes in "So You Want to Raise a Boy?" (1958, p.232) My father saw his role as keeping me "on track." Since his success was based on a higher education, keeping me "on track" meant keeping me in school.

    I was not allowed to get off the treadmill. Despite the fact I was a bright kid, and had written a syndicated newspaper column at age 11, he never believed in me, my talent, and especially my good intentions. He always treated me like a loose cannon that required mooring. After I graduated from high school, I wanted to take a semester and work in a mine. Then, I planned to go to an out-of-town university known for its radical leftist professors. (I was a Lefty back then.) I'll never know how this would have turned out. My father exerted great pressure, including the inducement of a car, to make me enroll at once at the local university. I succumbed and fell into a depression. I only completed three of five courses with poor marks that first year.

    My spirit broken, I ended up staying at university as a kind of hospice from a world I didn't understand. I ended up getting a Ph.D. that I have barely used. On another occasion, I wanted to use the family cottage as a spiritual retreat, a kind of Thoreau's Walden. Again, no deal. Get your thesis done.

    "FRIEND"

    I complain he was not my "friend" yet once he did act like one and made a mistake. This was much earlier when I was ten or eleven-years-old. My friends and I were going through puberty. We were swiping copies of PLAYBOY magazine from newsstands. I summoned my courage and asked my father for a subscription. He agreed. I papered the insides of my bedroom closet doors with Playmates-of-the-Month. In retrospect, this distorted my perception of women and undermined my future relationships. I fell for the "Playboy Philosophy" that a woman's sex appeal and appearance were the Holy Grail.

    Nevertheless my father's response created a major bond for me. I really dug him for it. I wish now he had known better and taught me that I was making a mistake that would mess up my life. So here I am wishing he were a better friend, and sometimes wishing he had been a better father. But I don't blame him. We all have many limitations. He gave me a lot. I wasn't an easy child - always resisting his "discipline." Now that he is old, his good nature is on display. Many old men are crotchety but my dad has never been kinder and sweeter.

    MY OWN SON

    I have tried to be a friend to my only son, who is now 24-years-old. I really didn't have a choice for two reasons. Because of my immaturity, due partly to my dysfunctional relation to women, I did not have a positive model to present. Secondly, his mother, my ex-wife, had physical custody. I only saw him a few times a week. Someone said men don't want to have children because they are not finished being children themselves. That's now more true than ever. We have been re-engineered to be perpetual adolescents.

    I tried to influence my son to become a historian because true history has been suppressed. He took a few history courses, was bored and became a lawyer instead. He is happy with his decision, and so am I. The baseball player Harmon Killebrew tells this story: "My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard. Mother would come out and say, "You're tearing up the grass." "We're not raising grass," Dad would reply. "We're raising boys."

    Looking back, I wish I had also believed in raising children. I wish my father had believed in me. Faith - we underestimate its power. Instead of looking for the "meaning" of life, I wish I had realized that life has inherent meaning if we follow its innate design.

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    THE ZIONIST BASTARD CAMERON SMEARS FATHERS ON THE EVE OF FATHERS DAY
    THE VILE TORY TOFFY NOSED BASTARD OF A PRIME MINISTER CAMERON NOW RUNNING THE UK ON A THREAD HAS THE AUDACITY TO ATTACK FATHERS ON THE EVE OF FATHERS DAY . HE WOULDN'T DARE SLAG HIS JEWISH BROTHERS IN ISRAEL FOR THE MASS MURDERING IN PALESTINE AND GAZA BUT INSTEAD GOES ON THE SMEARING CAMPAIGN AGAINST FATHERS. A RICH KID GROOMED AT ETON, NEXT DOOR TO THE ROYAL HOUSE OF WINDSOR, TO BE ANOTHER RUTHLESS BASTARD INTENT ON ATTACKING MEN NOT PART OF HIS ESTABLISHMENT ZIONIST/MASONIC MAFIA MOB.THIS VILE SCUMBAG IS NOW ON A WARPATH WITH MEN WHO NEED TO STAND UP AGAINST EVIL TORY TOFF THUGGERY .

    Fathers who abandon their families should be "stigmatised" by society in the same way as drink-drivers, David Cameron has said.

    The Prime Minister signalled a new onslaught on "runaway dads" saying they should be made to feel the "full force of shame" for their actions. Writing in The Sunday Telegraph in an article to mark Father's Day, he said it "simply isn't acceptable" for single mothers to be left to bring up their children on their own. Mr Cameron also indicated his determination to introduce tax breaks for married couples - a Tory general election pledge which appeared to have been dropped by the coalition in the face of Liberal Democrat opposition.

    "I want us to recognise marriage in the tax system so as a country we show we value commitment," he wrote. He issued a strong defence of traditional family life - describing it as the "cornerstone of our society" and called for a new drive to "bring fathers back into the lives of all our children". Even when parents were separated, he said, fathers had a duty to support "financially and emotionally" their children - spending time with them at weekends, attending nativity plays and taking an interest in their education. Where men were unwilling to face up to their family obligations, Mr Cameron said that it was up to the rest of society to make clear that such behaviour was unacceptable.

    "It's high time runaway dads were stigmatised, and the full force of shame was heaped upon them," he said. "They should be looked at like drink drivers, people who are beyond the pale. They need the message rammed home to them, from every part of our culture, that what they're doing is wrong - that leaving single mothers, who do a heroic job against all odds, to fend for themselves simply isn't acceptable." Mr Cameron also described how he learned his values from his own father, Ian Cameron, who died last year aged 77. He said: "From my father, I learned about responsibility. Seeing him get up before the crack of dawn to go and do a hard day's work and not come back until late at night had a profound impact on me."

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  • Cameron's Father's Day sermon shows he's out of touch, sanctimonious and infuriating
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    Some interesting comments that made it past the extreme right wing moderator on the Daily Mail over Cameron's typically nasty tory toff attack on fathers timed for Fathers Day.

    David Cameron: Absent fathers are as bad as drink drivers

    ‘It’s high time runaway dads were stigmatised, and the full force of shame was heaped upon them. They should be looked at like drink-drivers, people who are beyond the pale.’ Well done Dave and others. I'm one of those absent fathers, not through choice though. The ex wife remarried, I was giving her generous cash payments when I was in the army and when I left and could no longer afford to pay the same, she went to the CSA. I could not afford their bills and left the country. Oh, and I did 25 years military service. What have you done for the country Dave? Spent taxpayers money on overseas aid for countries that don't need it and supported an illegal war in Iraq and a pointless one in Afghanistan. You make me want to puke you little oik. You have no idea of real life.So stick your tinpot little regime up your ar*e. and yes, I would have prefered to stay in UK with a possibility of seeing my kids, you priced me out. I hate these politician thieves, liars and scum. Roll on the revolution

    - Les, Thailand, 19/6/2011 04:37

    Mr. Prime Minister: Your Father’s Day statement is a cruel slap in the face to thousands of good, decent, & hardworking divorced dads being denied the right to raise their children because of the abuse, harassment, discrimination, & corruption of the Family Courts. Nobody cares that thousands of dads are cruelly ripped away from their children everyday by mothers who are encouraged to do so - and rewarded for doing so - by the socialist feminazi family justice system. Tens of thousands of dads & their children across Britain this Father's Day will not be together - not because the father & children don't want to see each other, not because the father doesn't want to be a fulltime parent, but because the courts, the mothers, the government, the social agencies, the media & any number of other sycophantic socialist feminist organisations have banded together to ensure that it is impossible for dads & children to see each other, & made it illegal for dads to be fulltime parents.

    - Mississauga Dad, Toronto, Canada, 19/6/2011 04:30

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    HOW TO BE MORE AT PEACE WITH YOUR DAD: FATHERS DAY VIDEO


    FOR THE MANY FATHERS GLOBALLY SEPARATED FROM THEIR CHILDREN THROUGH DRACONIAN COURT ORDERS THAT HAVE A DIFFICULT TIME AT FATHERS DAY. FATHERS WHO MAY NEVER FULLY RECOVER THE RELATIONSHIP WITH THEIR CHILDREN AFTER BEING DRAGGED THROUGH FAMILY COURTS.
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    KILL FOR YOUR COUNTRY AND YOU'RE A HERO BUT VILIFIED IF YOU'RE A SEPARATED DAD
    The evil that spouts from the complicit media is breathtaking in its hypocrisy. If you murder women and children for the state you are classed as a hero with the media using complimentary quotes from everyone and anyone who are friends or family of the armed forces and who operate for the military complex .

    However if you find your ex-wife falls out of love with you that same state machine and all its evil tentacles of control over the media suddenly turns you into some sort of monster that deserves to be castigated and smeared to ensure all the arms of the industrial divorce complex can get free access to all your assets, home and especially your children. There is something vile and creepy and definitely MASONIC about how men across the globe who separate are turned into villains targeted by a legal mafia operating on behalf of the British Crown with worldwide control of courts and lawyers via bar associations.

    There is a mountain of evidence showing the distortions both the state and its propaganda machine create to turn men either into hero's or enemies of the state depending on what purpose that state has in mind. Internally when the state wants to destroy a family the man is castigated and utterly abused however if the state externally wants to destroy a country those same men, who under any other circumstances would be the baddies, are turned into hero's when they murder women and children for the financial gain of the scum who manufacture arms and for the companies who rebuild broken countries after those wars destroy everything.

    Men worldwide are dealing with an enormous conspiracy against them from a few self appointed elite madmen with many layers of hangers on who do their dirty and who are all satanically controlled to destroy anyone not part of their creepy network. Their days are numbered as the cat is now out of the bag as to how they have used every arm of the state to destroy good men to prop up their creepy system now creaking at the seams from exposure across the globe on the internet, that we have NEVER had any doubt. Men cannot afford to let these evil bastards win this war against all our lives.
    PETER ANDRE VOTED CELEBRITY DAD OF THE YEAR
    HE NEEDS A MEDAL FOR PUTTING UP WITH KATIE PRICE FOR SO LONG

    Peter Andre struck a blow for single fathers everywhere by being crowned Celebrity Dad Of The Year today. The 37-year-old triumphed in a public vote despite splitting up with his partner, Katie Price, largely thanks to his devotion to her disabled first child, Harvey, by the footballer Dwight Yorke. He also quite obviously dotes on Junior and Princess Tiaamii, his two children with the glamour model, whose behaviour since their acrimonious break-up must make her long odds on become the female equivalent.

    Andre was all smiles as he picked up the trophy today at the Crown Plaza Hotel in London, where his ex-wife was also pictured with her cagefighter husband Alex Reid. He said: ‘This feels so good. It’s been a turnaround year for me and the kids and it’s an honour to be the subject of the public’s support and best wishes.

    ‘This means a huge amount to me as being a dad is my most important role.’ It was only 2007 when Price won the largely derided Mum Of The Year award but she has attracted a lot of negative publicity before, during and after split with Andre in May 2009. The 31-year-old caused controversy earlier this year after giving her two-year-old daughter Princess a make-over and posting the photographs on Twitter. She also used Princess Tiaamii and her son Junior, 4, as models in her KP equestrian clothing range campaign, fuelling speculation that she was exploiting her children for profits. Price is viewed by many as the reason behind the break-up - largely for horsing around with an equestrian friend - and she didn't help her cause by flying off to Ibiza for a raunchy photo shoot along with a week of heavy partying straight after the split.

    But whether her wild ways have impacted the public’s perception of motherhood is yet to be revealed, as Bounty announces their Celebrity Mum of the Year Award in November. More than 35,000 votes were cast in the Celebrity Dad Of The Year poll, which also saw ousted premier Gordon Brown beat Prime Minister David Cameron.

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    CALIFORNIA DAD MAKES HEROIC RESCUE OF DAUGHTER FROM RIVER VIDEO

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    WHO NEEDS FATHERS? VIDEO
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    A major series to mark 20 years since the passing of the Children Act, investigates whether its key principle is being adhered to - that in family breakdown and divorce, the welfare of the child is paramount.

    One in three British children have parents who are separated, and it's their relationship with the absent parent that's the key factor in their long-term wellbeing. The first film follows two families, one locked in a long battle in the Family Court, and the other determined to stay out of court and manage the split themselves. The film explores the impact of separation on children's lives and how decisions made in court play out in already troubled relationships.

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    BUS DRIVER WINS £2 MILLION ON LOTTERY THE DAY AFTER HIS DIVORCE CAME THROUGH

    kevin halstead Bus driver Kevin Halstead wins lotto day after divorce

    A BRITISH bus driver netted more than £2 million ($3.3 million) on the lottery a day after his divorce came through, The Sun reports. Kevin Halstead, 50, went out for a drink with friends after his decree absolute arrived in the post last Friday. He bought a lottery ticket the next day – and was gobsmacked when his lucky numbers came up later that evening, The Sun reports.

    Kevin could have been forced to hand half the £2,302,668 to ex-wife Helen if the divorce had taken just a few days longer. But the astonishing timing of the win means he and his new partner will be able to keep the lot. A friend said: "Kevin was having a drink with his mates after his paperwork came through. "He buys a ticket the following morning and scoops the jackpot. You couldn't make it up." Kevin and his partner, of Chorley, Lancashire, were whisked to a secret location yesterday by National Lottery organizer Camelot. But they are set to face TV cameras overnight. They shared last Saturday's £4.6m jackpot with another punter after both matched numbers 23, 25, 28, 33, 44 and 49. Ex-wife Helen said: "We are the best of friends. In fact, we get on better now than when we were married. "It couldn't have happened to a nicer bloke. I wish him all the luck in the world - he deserves it."

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    THE ROLE OF THE FATHER HAS BEEN DOWNGRADED

    father and child THIS ARTICLE WOULD BE LAUGHABLE IF NOT SO SERIOUS WRITTEN BY THE HEAD OF LAWYERS IN BRITAIN WHO HAVE MORE THAN ANY OTHER GROUP BEEN RESPONSIBLE FOR THE ENORMOUS HARM TO FATHERS AND THEIR CHILDREN INCLUDING THEIR FUTURE INHERITANCE THANKS TO THE FLEECING OF MEN BY THE LEGAL MAFIA.

    Legislation has effectively dismissed the contribution of half the population to the upbringing of the next generation, says Ruth Deech, the chairman of the Bar Standards Board. There is a wealth of research showing that children need fathers

    Over the last half a century there has been a sea change in society’s attitude towards same-sex relationships, marriage and the family. Homosexuality has moved from criminal status to legalisation, from legalisation to acceptance and the same respectfulness as heterosexual relationships. We have now reached the stage where, in the event of an election victory, the Conservative leader has promised that civil partners will benefit from extended paternity and maternity leave (in the case of adoption or artificial insemination babies). David Cameron has also promised that proposals to extend flexible working and married couples’ tax breaks would be granted as well. He has stated that the party is no longer hostile to same sex couples.

    While changes to the law which have given homosexual couples the same rights and responsibilities as heterosexual couples are welcome, there are two issues involving modern society’s attitude towards children which give me unease.

    One is the new possibility of birth certificates for children born to couples of the same sex, which name two persons of the same sex as their parents. This is logical following on the extension of rights to same sex couples, but there is an issue of principle here, which is the truth. Sections of the 2008 Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act (HFEA) even allow a dead woman, never known to the baby and not related, to be named with her previous consent on the birth certificate by the choice of the birth mother, while preventing the child from having a father. Birth registration is about genetic inheritance (albeit that sometimes the truth is not told) and about the welfare of the child, not about the relationship, legal or otherwise, between the adults whose will gave rise to it. The birth certificate that names two female parents will disclose to anyone perusing it that the child was necessarily born from donor sperm or a donor embryo or a surrogate mother. It could even result in deception to exclude the natural father where the mother conceived naturally but uses this provision to cut him out of the child’s life.

    There are other ways for two adults of the same sex to gain parental responsibility over a baby, and it should not have to be through the birth certificate. It puts the demands of the adults ahead of the rights of children to know and benefit from both sides of their genetic makeup. It sits uneasily with the ending of donor anonymity in reproduction generally, and for the call for mothers to name fathers on birth certificates. This is not a moral issue; it is about disguising true facts, and it is about confusing biological parenthood with legal and social parenthood. Civil partnerships do still differ from marriage a little, and this is an area where the difference ought to be preserved with justification.

    The other area of regret for me is the removal from the law of the provision in the 2000 HFEA that when a doctor is considering whether or not to give infertility treatment to a woman, he or she had to consider the welfare of the potential baby, “including the child’s need for a father.” It was removed on the ground that it was discriminatory against single mothers and lesbians, and replaced by the need to check for “supportive parenting”, whatever that may mean. Reproductive services are in fact quite readily available to single women, and it is thought that about 25 per cent of lesbian couples have children. I regret the downgrading of the father as a person of importance – the legislative dismissal of the contribution of half the population to the upbringing of the next generation. The removal of the requirement to consider the need for a father is to make a fresh statement that the child does not need a father, no matter how liberally the old law’s requirement was interpreted. It sends a message to men, at a time when many of them feel undermined as providers and parents, contrary to government policy in this field.

    Government policy is that men should take financial responsibility for their children and stay in touch with them after separation; that they should take paternity leave and be involved. There is a wealth of research showing that children need fathers, not just two parents. Children need to see complementary roles, the relationship between the sexes, a microcosm of society, as they grow up. Recent reports have placed Britain at the bottom of international league tables for the welfare of children and we know that boys without fathers do worse at school and turn to worse role models. Research shows that their presence gives girls as well as boys advantages in educational and social development. The limit to same sex relationships is that they cannot be a reproductive unit in a way that is best for the welfare of the child if they cut out all contact with members of the other sex or falsify the birth registration. Tolerance of both types of parenting has to be ensured.

    Baroness Deech is the chairman of the Bar Standards Board.

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    DAD v BABY VIDEO

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    PERSISTENT DAD SAVES HIS DAUGHTER'S LIFE
    lung A father who refused to accept his daughter was suffering from asthma saved her life by insisting she had an x-ray which revealed she had lung cancer. Laura Hicks was 17 when she started suffering from breathlessness and persistent coughing - her GP first gave her antibiotics and then an inhaler after diagnosing the problem as asthma.

    But dad Stan, an osteopath, was not convinced and sent her back to the doctor with a letter asking for an x-ray to be carried out and the scan showed a large tumour taking up two-thirds of her right lung. Laura, now aged 20, underwent six months of chemotherapy and radiotherapy to shrink the tumour which was then removed with half of her lung and two ribs in 2007. Laura, from Midsomer Norton, in Somerset, is now cancer free. "There was something in the back of my mind that it was more serious, but I had so many things on at the time I ignored it because I just trusted the doctor," she said.

    "I was lucky that my doctor actually listened, but you have to think that GPs see so many patients a day, and my dad sees me every day so he could tell things weren't right. "I wasn't shocked when they told me it was cancer as I suppose subconsciously I was prepared for it, but it has put things into perspective. I listen to my dad more now, well on some things anyway."

    Laura was unable to sit her A level exams while undergoing treatment but has now completed a foundation access course in economics and hopes to go to the University of Bath to study economics. "I can't walk very far and I am more prone to chest infections so I have to look after myself, but I did the Race for Life a few weeks ago," she said. Mr Hicks, who is also an animal osteopath, said his medical knowledge and instinct made him question Laura's initial diagnosis.

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