How can you facilitate contact between a child and his father when his mother is dead set against it?
The co-ordinator of a child contact centre attempts to ensure legal requirements for contact are met while safeguarding the welfare of the child.
I co-ordinate a supportive child contact centre, where we provide a safe environment for children from broken relationships to meet the parent they do not live with.
We don't make judgments, we don't write reports and we don't supervise contact one-to-one. In my experience our main difficulties are with mothers.
Most mums are very anti their exes and usually for good reason - they may have been abused physically or the father is not paying maintenance when he should be - and they feel. "Why should he have contact? What right does he have?".
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