Divorce and separation can be a significant time of upheaval for your children. Family Mediation puts children first, by helping parents to focus on what their children need.
Through this process, parents are helped to find a common ground. Most parents will usually agree that children need to be taken care of physically and emotionally, and that they need to be loved, and provided with a stable and safe environment.
In mediation parents can identify and talk about their children’s needs and how they can best meet them. Here are three more benefits of Family Mediation:
- Family Mediation helps parents to work out a detailed parenting plan, which can cover all aspects of a children’s upbringing from where they will live, and the arrangements to see the parent that they do not live with, to how parents will address issues such as education, religion and health.
- Family Mediation helps parents communicate with each other: with the focus firmly on the best interests of the child, mediation encourages parents to work out how they can best communicate about those interests with each other. Whilst a couple’s relationship may have broken down, in mediation, they can work out how best to manage the relationship that they will continue to have because of their children.
- Family Mediation can bring the voice of the child into the process. There is an increasing awareness that children need to feel that they have been heard, and that their voices have been listened to.
If you would like to find out more about how mediation can help you make arrangements for your children please get in touch with us on 01923 431601 or by email at info@evolvefamilymediation.co.uk.