We will have to come to terms with the fact that certain countries have not signed The Hague Convention. When children reach the age of seven or eight, the rights of both parents may be quite different in religious courts in such countries. The imam of one of the mosques in Dublin spoke at a conference I organised in Dublin for the legal profession. The imam, who was a very nice man, argued that people from other countries living in Ireland should be required to obey Irish law. I am not sure that his belief is very prevalent when it comes to the rearing of children. I have discovered that trouble begins to appear around the time when children in our culture make their first holy communion.