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Program
for divorcing parents that help parents understand emotional
issues faced by children during divorce. This parenting program
provides divorcing families with the tools to ensure that
children rebound from divorce while minimizing pressures.
Couples, who can no longer live together, find that they must
still remain attached through their individual bonds to their
children. The Crider Kids First program is one session, two-hours
in length.
This program provides the first step in ensuring
the best outcome for children as they learn to live with the
divorce of their parents.
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It is extremely important that children are enabled to have an unhampered
relationship with both parents. They need this to make the adjustment
to living in two homes, as well as to negotiate their normal developmental
and psychological growth. Their needs and rights should be foremost
in any decisions regarding parenting time and decision-making.
Children of Divorce Bill
of Rights
- The right to be treated as important human beings, with unique
feelings, ideas, desires and not as a source of argument between
parents.
- The right to a continuing relationship with both parents and
the freedom to receive love from and express love for both.
- The right to express love and affection for each parent without
having to stifle that love because of fear of disapproval by
the other parent.
- The right to know that their parents' decision to divorce
is not their responsibility and that they will live with one
parent and visit the other parent.
- The right to continuing care and guidance from both parents.
- The right to honest answers to questions about the changing
family relationships.
- The right to know and appreciate what is good in each parent
without one parent degrading the other.
- The right to have a relaxed, secure relationship with both
parents without being placed in a position to manipulate one
parent against the other.
- The right to have the custodial parent not undermine visitation
by suggesting tempting alternatives or by threatening to withhold
visitation as a punishment for the children's wrongdoing.
- The right to be able to experience regular and consistent
visitation and the right to know the reason for a cancelled
visit.
Dane
County Family Counseling Service of Madison, Wisconsin
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