Parents have a responsibility to ensure their children are protected from the conflict that can arise through separation. Children’s mental health and well-being all too often gets forgotten and overlooked when parents are in conflict with one another.
Mr Robert Emery believes that children should have a certain set of rights to protect them through the divorce process, and that by giving children these freedoms parents will have achieved a lot in fulfilling their responsibilities to their children.
Mr Robert Emery’s Children’s Bill of Rights states children should have the following rights;
1️⃣ The right to love and be loved by both of their parents without feeling guilt or disapproval
2️⃣ The right to be protected from their parent’s anger towards each other
3️⃣ The right to be kept out of the middle of their parents’ conflict, including the right not to pick sides, carry messages, or hear complaints about the other parent
4️⃣ The right to not have to choose one parent over the other
5️⃣ The right not to have to be responsible for the burden of either of their parents emotional problems
6️⃣ The right to know well in advance about important changes that will effect their lives; for example when of their parents is going to move or get married
7️⃣ The right to reasonable financial support during their childhood and tertiary education years
8️⃣ The right to have feelings, to express their feelings, and to have both parents listen to how they feel
9️⃣ The right to have a life that is as close as possible to what it would have been if their parents had stayed together
🔟 The right to be a kid
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