Dads "driven to distraction" over custody rights
Fathers in the UK and Northern Ireland are too concerned about not getting enough time with their children after a divorce, a family lawyer has claimed.
According to Diane Benussi, fathers are now generally given "generous contact rights" for their children by solicitors and family courts, who judge this to be in the best interests of the child.
However, she added on her blog, walking out on children or leaving them because it will be 'better' to leave them to the care of their mother, and perhaps their mother's new partner, is "deeply flawed".
Leaving children can cause them emotional problems and lead them to feel "abandoned, guilty and unloved", the solicitor said.
Parents in Northern Ireland can consider the advice on athealth.com which says that children of "warring" parents have to walk "a tightrope" between them, causing short and long-term emotional damage.
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