Blog Entries tagged 'single parents'

What's a Mum to do?

editor@uticopa.com — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 00:00:00 +0100

Divorce is a stressful time for all-concerned. Depending on the personalities involved, the transition can move along on co-operative lines, via angry skirmishes or by plain suffering and doubt on all sides.

In a so-called ‘co-operative' divorce, both parents work together to restructure their own relationship and their family to allow the children as normal a relationship with each of them as possible. This means co-operating with each other as to finances, logistics and fami [...]

What I need from my Mom and Dad - now you're no longer together

editor@uticopa.com — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 00:00:00 +0100

I need both of you to stay involved in my life. Please write or text me, make phone calls and ask me lots of questions. When I don't hear from either of you, I feel as if I'm not important and that neither of you really love me.

Please stop arguing and work hard to be friends. When you argue about me, I think that I must have done something wrong and I feel guilty.

I want to love you both and enjoy the time that I spend with each of you. I feel as if I need t [...]

Divorce and a father's state of mind

editor@uticopa.com — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 00:00:00 +0100

No matter whose decision it is to separate, fathers suffer stress, anxiety and loneliness when living apart from their children. All fathers in such situations say they feel cut off from reality, unable to sleep or work.

Some fathers in these situations try to take the law into their own hands. One civil rights group, Fathers4Justice, does just this as a means of giving a generation of children the right in law to see their fathers. Founded in 2002, it sets out to give parents [...]