Contributing organisations and projects
Rainbows (Austria)
RAINBOWS works to support children and teenagers as they deal with separation or loss, helpingthem to avoid the serious long-term effects which can result from the psychological strain of suchexperiences. RAINBOWS provides assistance for affected children and adults so that they canlearn to cope with their grief and accept new family situations.Evaluation of staff reports and the feedback we receive from parents (on feedback forms) confirmthe effectiveness of the support offered by RAINBOWS. Further support includes holiday camps,seminars for parents, courses, workshopsRAINBOWS is a non profit organisation founded in 1991. Our work is aimed at children andteenagers aged 4 to 17 years and parents and carers of affected children and teenagers
Udruga Dijete razvod (Croatia)
The Association Child-Divorce is a national non-government non-profit organisation (established inFebruary 2008) that is mostly oriented to obtaining information resources for all involved partiesin order to help them make decisions directed to bringing about better outcomes for children.Our services are available to parents who are caring for their children alone, those who aresharing care and those who have no contact with their children, and anyone else with concernsabout family separation, including lawyers, judges, social care center workers (psychologists,social workers, jurists), concerned government bodies (Children’s State Advocate, Ombudsman,State Gender Equality Office)We believe that best parent is both parents, regardless of whether children live with both parentsor with one of them. We want to help children to have ongoing relationships with both of their parents. Parents not only need help to achieve this, they need the infrastructure which facilitatesthis. Infrastructure would include gender aware, accessible, empathic and empowering social carecenters’ workers and judicial system and their workers’ competence. We believe that gender biases have to be overcome at all levels, legislation has to be changed, court procedures have tobe shorter and more efficient, and Court Orders have to be more precise. The Association deliversinformation and advice by telephone, email and through its website.The Association has published a free brochure with a template of the parenting plan, advicecollected from experts, and addresses of all relevant bodies involved in decisions about children of divorcing and divorced parents, which has been distributed to all social care centers and can alsobe downloaded from our web page.
Children of Europe (Czech Republic)
Divorce is considered to be a deep crisis for all: the children and the parents, with terribledisadvantages, consequences and results. But we can avoid many of these by improving therelationship between parents after divorce.With increasing frequency in divorce and thoughts of equality between the sexes, came aquestion, "is mother becoming the prime carer for the child the best solution following divorce?"The established order with the mother as the obvious and natural custodial person, is sometimes sostrong that it cannot be broken. Still, there is evidence demonstrating an alternative for solving thesituation. Joint custody and shared parenting show up as a new alternative to the established pattern.This after divorce concept can be more or less considered the most convenient. It ensures thecontinuation of family life for the child. It ensures the children having two parents, although theylive in separate places. It ensures that one parent is not unfairly burdened with responsibility for the child’s upbringing, and that both mother and father are responsibleOur basic idea is that we must do everything necessary for the best interest of the child becausewe believe that the best parents is both parents.
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