Hartnell Chanot: Divorce/Family Law Solicitors Exeter, Devon

Mothers Living Apart from Children

Sunday, 27 September 2009 10:00

The circumstances surrounding a mother living apart from a child are often complex and emotionally charged: but whatever the reason for separation, living apart from your child can be traumatic and painful.

According to MATCH (Mothers apart from their children), Mothers are apart from their child for many complex reasons but, for general simplification, fall into these six main groups:

• Child has been adopted.
• Child is in care.
• Child has been abducted by the other parent.
• Child lives with the Resident Parent (father). Mother may have Non-Resident Parent (NRP) status and sees/writes/telephones/texts/e-mails child according to clearly defined Contact Orders or Family Court Judgments. (See Maintaining Contact with your children)
  
• Child chooses not to see mother after high conflict situations following family breakdown, voicing intense criticism of her, sometimes verging on hatred. This is sometimes defined as Parental Alienation Syndrome.
• Adult child, after a family feud or the family splitting up, chooses not to see his mother.

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