"Far more often, the parties are fighting over the battles of the relationship, and the children are both the battlefield and the ammunition," he said.
"Often the mother, who finds herself caring for the children, is able to use her power over them to deny the father contact.
"It is very easy for one party to say that he or she is acting in the best interests of the child concerned, and that the other party is not; it is quite another to understand that both think they are and that often neither is."
In the speech he said issues around separation can often be more complicated when they involve intelligent couples.
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