I read a newspaper article about two young boys who were making a court application for an order making their father come and visit them. Can that happen?

The situation you mention is very unusual and it doesn't work in practice. Access that is ordered when a parent is not interested seems to defeat the purpose of access: to foster a loving relationship between a caring parent and a child.

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