You're absolutely right about the conflict element of family law.
Unfortunately it's about the best interests of the system not the children, and the people (parliament) who make rules about the system are largely the same ones (lawyers) who came up through it and realize that they would be killing a golden goose if they did something sensible e.g. forcing everyone to go through mediation or collaborative family and removing the adversarial option from them.
As for the FRO, well it seems to me (and I have had little direct but lots of indirect dealings with them) that they are a bunch of man-haters. Their caseload is also ridiculously high.
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