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Balancing a second family
New relationships can disturb the delicate balance of a child’s sense of security, writes Angie Mezzetti .
WORKING OUT new relationships when marriages and relationships breakdown inevitably brings challenges for the parents, partners and children involved. It is vital that both families work out a parenting plan that can avoid or minimise these conflicts, according to the Family Mediation Service which has been facilitating these type of arrangements since 1986.
Emer Hayden, in its Letterkenny office, says the things that worry children when their parents split up are basic things such as where are they going to live, what the new accommodation will be like and how the money will be split between two families.
“With the emotion surrounding the old and new relationships it can be difficult to keep focused,” she says.
Sheila Healy, Family Mediation Service Dublin office co-ordinator, says they help people from all walks of life and all forms of families, from those who were never married to short-term couples or long-time married and now separated.
In recent years, she says, women are at least as likely to initiate separation as men and this is often due to greater financial independence of women.
“The impetus for a couple coming to us looking for a new arrangement is often when one partner is in a new relationship and a new partner is pregnant.
Read more…Balancing a second family – The Irish Times – Tue, Jul 22, 2008
