House of Assembly's Friday debate on the child in society "eloquent''.

Eddie Fisher, president of Child Watch, said the debate on the United Nations Convention for Child Rights was "first class''.

"We're impressed. Most members spoke eloquently,'' said Mr. Fisher.

"With so much common sense coming from the members, we hope that together we can come up with some solutions.

"Although we're a fathers' rights group, we care about children foremost.

There was a lot of respect (between Parliamentarians) on this particular subject because that's what we're trying to teach our children.

"The whole discussion was first class and they pointed to a lot of problems and offered solutions,'' said Mr. Fisher.

He highlighted MPs Dale Butler, Arthur Hodgson and Kim Swan as particularly well-informed and passionate.

He said with Parliamentarians so gung-ho on child issues, he hoped they would look into bringing groups like Child Watch on board to help fix problems.

Mr. Fisher said Child Watch agreed with Mr. Hodgson's comments "It's easy to get married, it's hard to get divorced'' and "We go to a preacher to get married and we go to a lawyer to get divorced''.

"We stand whole heartily behind Mr. Hodgson's remarks,'' said Mr. Fisher.

He went on to say that some of those who attempt to "jump over the fence to greener pastures'' via divorce, "sometimes find they are landing on AstroTurf''.

"And it's hard to cut that kind of grass,'' said Mr. Fisher.

He said Bermuda's current laws relating to parent and child relationship's after divorce was "basically making a recipe for the (children) to fail''.