About us
For all children around the world, the best way to be brought up, is in a well run, functional family.
But due to the changes in our lifes not all children have this pleasure. We are witnesses of many broken relationships and families.
Divorce is considered to be a deep crisis for all: the children and the parents, with terrible disadvantages, consequences and results. But we can avoid many of these by improving the parent after divorce relationship.
With increasing frequency in divorce and thoughts of equality between the sexes, came a question:
"Is mother becoming the prime care for the child the best solution following divorce?"
The established order with the mother as the obvious and natural custodial person, is sometimes so strong that it cannot be broken.
Still, there are verifications demonstrating an alternative for solving the situation.
Joint custody and shared parenting show up as a new alternative to the established pattern.
This after divorce concept can be more or less considered the most convenient.
- it ensures the continuation of family life for the child.
- it ensures the children having two parents, although they live in separate places
- it ensures that one parent is not unfairly burdened with responsibility for the child’s upbringing, and that both mother and father are responsible
Our basic idea is “We must do everything neccessary for the best interest of the child” because
“THE BEST PARENTS IS BOTH PARENTS”.
Children of Europe, o.p.s.
is a non-governmental organization, the goal of which is simple and yet very important: to support the protection of children’s and parent's rights across Europe.
And to promote the protection of children’s rights, especially their right for both parents, as well as broaden the information about the shared custody.
What is shared parenting
Shared parenting/shared custody/ joint custody:
It is the concept, following divorce or separation.
Mothers and fathers should retain a strong positive parenting role in their children's lives, with the children actually spending substantial amounts of time living with each parent.
Shortly –the care for the children is shared by both parents equally
There are a wide variety of parenting arrangements to suit a range of situations and these provide for time-splits from 30/70 to 50/50
Why shared parenting
Many children decline to 'choose' which parent to live with after family breakdown, and express dissatisfaction with the artificiality of traditional contact arrangements which often relegate one parent to the role of a distant and infrequent visitor.
Shared parenting offers the children the opportunity to build up and maintain meaningful relationships with both their parents.
What are the advantages
- It ensures continuation of family life for the child, with the advantage of nurture and meaningful and lasting relationships with both parents rather than just one.
- I t reassures children that they have two parents, and although they live in separate places, the children definitely have a home with each of them.
- It ensures that one parent is not unfairly burdened with the responsibility of discipline whilst the other becomes merely the fun or contact parent.
- It dispels the notion that only one parent is "caring" and that the other is "errant" or "absent".
Children whose parents share parenting actually do better than children living with just one parent. Research shows clearly that the children who best survive their parents break-up are those maintaining significant and positive relationships with both parents.
