PARENTAL
ALIENATION
MEDIATION
- Have you recently split from your partner?
- Unsure How to sort finances?
- Kids Caught in the middle?
- Want to avoid going to court?
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Mediation offers significant benefits for parents navigating family disputes. It provides a structured and supportive environment where parents can openly communicate and work through their differences. By focusing on respectful dialogue, mediation helps parents understand each other’s perspectives and prioritise the well-being of their children.
This process encourages collaboration in creating effective co-parenting plans, fostering a cooperative relationship that benefits the entire family. Additionally, mediation reduces the emotional strain often associated with conflicts, allowing parents to resolve issues amicably and constructively. Ultimately, mediation empowers parents to make informed decisions together, promoting a healthier and more stable family dynamic.
Emotional Distress: Children may experience feelings of confusion, guilt, and sadness due to the conflicting loyalties between parents.
Mental Health Issues: Both children and alienated parents can suffer from anxiety, depression, and low self-esteem.
Relationship Strain: The bond between the child and the alienated parent can be severely damaged, sometimes leading to long-term estrangement.
Behavioural Problems: Children may exhibit behavioral issues such as aggression, defiance, or withdrawal.
Social Isolation: Alienated parents often feel isolated and unsupported, which can exacerbate feelings of grief and frustration.
Legal and Financial Strain: Ongoing legal battles and the costs associated with them can add additional stress to both parents and children.
1. Confidentiality: Some couples may fear to discuss the multiple issues of their family publicly as that done in court, through intervention they feel more comfortable since the matter is sorted in private.
2. Satisfaction: When a divorced parent come to full agreement with the other through mediation, they feel satisfied with the deal made by the mediator since they had contributed.
3. Agreement: When the two parents participate on the mediation process, the mediator reaches to an agreement depending on each other’s argument.
4. Economical: Mediation process is cheaper than the court process since it involves only one mediator. The meeting venue is also determined by the couple’s financial ability though severally, the mediator’s office is preferred.
5. Saves times: The time spent by the mediator is less as that compared spent in the court
6. Control: since both parents are consulted on their children affairs, the process may not affect emotionally anyone. Remember, the court orders depends on the constitution.
A parent may be denied total custody of their children by the court of law when it is determined that such custody would not be in the best interests of the child. This can occur if there is evidence of abuse or neglect, substance abuse issues, severe mental health problems, or a history of domestic violence.
Additionally, involvement in criminal activities, deliberate parental alienation, or an inability to provide for the child’s basic needs, such as food, shelter, education, and medical care, can also lead to a denial of custody. The court’s primary concern is always the safety, well-being, and best interests of the child, and each case is evaluated individually to ensure the child’s needs are met.