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What your children might feel
Children experience different emotions at different ages. This leaflet looks at the things your children are likely to feel and how their behavior might change. [pdf]
Helping your children to cope
How ever difficult family separation is for adults, it is even worse for children. This leaflet offers advice about the ways that you can help your children adapt to the new situation. [pdf]
New parenting patterns
All the evidence suggests that the children who adjust best to family separation are those that are able to maintain contact with both parents.This leaflet looks at the possibilities. [redirects to CSF]
Taking positive steps
Many parents describe feeling that they have lost control over their lives after divorce or separation. This leaflet looks at ways of coping and additional sources of support. [pdf]
Staying involved when you lose day to day contact
Sometimes, remaining involved can be tough. The hurt at the ending of your relationship may make you want to just walk away completely. But you are still important to your children. [pdf]
Building a new parenting relationship
It’s important that you can establish a business like relationship with your childʼs other parent. This will help your child feel safe and loved. Here are some tips on how to achieve it. [pdf]
Parental Responsibility
This leaflet, prepared by students working in the Centre for Pro Bono Services and Clinical Education at the York Centre of the College of Law, looks at Parental Responsibility (PR). [pdf]
Guardianship
This leaflet, prepared by students working in the Centre for Pro Bono Services and Clinical Education at the York Centre of the College of Law, looks at what will happen should you die. [pdf]
© The Centre for Separated Families (2009) Reg Charity No. 1055173
