{{Short description|British activist and author}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{BLP sources|date=December 2018}} '''Jim Parton''' is the author of several books, including ''Unreasonable Behaviour'', ''The Bucks Stops Here'' and ''Playing Footsie''. He also wrote a book with the popular minstrel Robbie Williams, entitled ''Let Me Entertain You''.
He used to be a fathers' rights activist and was chairman of the charitable social care organization Families Need Fathers (FNF) for five years and later editor of the charity's newsletter, ''McKenzie''. Parton was a frequent spokesperson on family law issues in the UK media.<ref>{{cite news | url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/4230653.stm | title=Courts to get parent access power |website=BBC News| date=2 February 2005 }}</ref>
He now lives in southern Poland, where he is restoring a seventeenth-century former bishop's palace with his wife at Piotrowice Nyskie, near Nysa. He writes occasionally on the internet and for the press and is a member of the Dull Men's Club.{{cn|date=February 2025}}
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==Further reading== * Jim Parton (2009), ''The Bucks Stop Here: Money talks and mine said 'goodbye' ''. Harriman House. {{ISBN|978-1-905641-00-0}}
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