The International Platform on Shared Parenting has recently adopted a resolution emphasising how important it is for children that their parents continue to cooperate after separation or divorce, reports charity Families Need Fathers.
The resolution says:
“We must extinguish the flames of conflict between separated parents so that children can benefit from the support of their mothers and fathers. There must be more widespread awareness, acceptance and implementation of shared parenting as a viable and preferred solution among the public and involved professions.”
At the conference, parent organisations, family professionals and scientists from 14 countries in Europe and North America called upon governments, judges, lawyers, mediators and social workers to promote peace between parents and to develop new ways of helping families to operate better after separation.
Jerry Karlin, Chair of Families Need Fathers, commented, “The Two Homes event has emphasised that shared parenting benefits children, families and communities by ensuring parental separation does not lead to a child becoming estranged from a loving parent. It was very positive to see organisations from a number of countries working together to share details of research and best practice on shared parenting arrangements.”
The term ‘shared parenting’ refers to post-separation arrangements for children where both parents contribute in a full and meaningful way to ensuring the physical, social and emotional needs of their children are met.
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