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Parental conflict: the impact for children and how to resolve it

Academic whose research underpins new government drive to resolve parental conflict explains how policy can help councils develop support programmes that mitigate the damage it causes to children's wellbeing.

A Department for Work and Pensions policy document, Improving Lives: Helping Workless Families, sets out a series of innovative objectives aimed at helping parents who experience worklessness and other areas of disadvantage to improve outcomes and future life chances for their children. A key focus of the paper is the importance placed on supporting and strengthening the quality of inter-parental relationships, whether parents are living together or not.

This emphasis is based on a new generation of research that has highlighted the value of focusing on the quality of the relationship that exists between parents and carers, specifically how parents and carers relate to each other and manage conflicts in their relationship, in promoting improved outcomes for children and adolescents.

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