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...change. Most articles note the flaws in the education profession but seldom discuss, let alone blame, parents for any part in the problem. I am pleased that most of the parents I was actually able to reach were cooperative. I did, however, occasionally encounter a mom or dad who displayed a less than realistic view of the adolescent angel taking up space (and often little else) in my classroom...
...this. Steve has just moved into a crummy granny flat and in the last nine months has seen his children only a handful of times. "I had a real good relationship with the kids," he says. "But they're starting to drift away from me. I'm still Dad, but I'm not Dad like...
...late for this man to have a civil relationship with his former love, or to feel as close as he once did to his children. But in the emotion-charged arena of family law, change is on the way. "I think this could be the year of the dad," says DiD founder Tony Miller. Indeed, if just some of the new ideas work, among the winners will be decent, loving fathers - and the children who might otherwise have missed out on knowing them...
...happy families in which Mum and Dad share the reading of bedtime stories and both enjoy spontaneous moments of connection with their children - a shared chuckle in the hallway, a wink at the dinner table - the tribulations of separated parents can seem remote. But if it's not your own family that's breaking apart, then it's probably your neighbor's, or your sibling's or your colleague's. Australia's divorce rate of 42% equates to about 70,000 couples - most with children - splitting each year...
...explosively (nor over as long a period) as the business of dividing up time with one's kids. In both Australia and New Zealand, one child in four lives apart from one of his natural parents. What troubles many is that the parent on the outer is usually the dad. Mothers gain residential custody in a fraction less than 70% of cases that are tried, according to figures provided by the Family Court of Australia to a 2003 parliamentary inquiry into custodial arrangements after separation. That mightn't sound like an outrageous imbalance, but it's important to note that...