News about what Shared Parenting Scotland is doing and other significant developments.
New Ways For Families® course now available in Scotland
Following the completion of our pilot programme, Shared Parenting Scotland is now making this training and coaching programme for separated parents available in Scotland. Over the past 12 months we have been trying out this course with 70 parents from…
Myths and Lies About Dads: How They Hurt Us All
A new book from Dr Linda Nielsen destroys more than 100 of the most damaging beliefs about fathers. Using the most recent research, this pioneering work exposes these baseless beliefs and the toll they take on children’s relationships with their father…
“Whether or not a parent has alienated a child is a question of fact … not a diagnosis”
A judgment by Sir Andrew MacFarlane, President of the Family Division in England and Wales, includes a strong statement on how parental alienation should be considered in family court cases (copied below). The judgment concerned an appeal against an or…
Major employers offer support to staff parents who separate
The Parents Promise has launched a campaign asking employers to incorporate more family-friendly HR policies for staff going through a divorce or separation. At the 26th January launch in London senior staff from Asda, Metrobank, NatWest, PwC, Tesco, U…
Fundamental overhaul of Child Maintenance Service needed
Speaking in a Westminster Hall debate about Child Maintenance on 17th January 2023, Jamie Stone MP called for a fundamental overhaul of the Child Maintenance Service (CMS). The Lib Dem member for Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross said: “I will re-…