Divorce is an emotionally strained and traumatic process for all family members. While adults decide to terminate their marital relationship, divorce, however, is never a first choice or a preferred end for children. Children find it very hard to accept and cope with the dramatic changes and being caught in between their parental conflict. They do not have the skills to handle the upheavals; some children might not even have the mastery of language to express their feelings. Although many families divorce, but each divorce is a unique process, and each family member experiences it in different ways.
Some parents remain lifelong enemies and are forever wrapped up in their own drama and pain. They push and push until they can “win” – but “Win at all costs” with the price of the lifelong damage to themselves and their children. Research has shown that 10% of all divorces are high conflict. Children who grow up in such hostile and aggressive relationships can carry torches from their young age to the time when they are parents and even grandparents.
Our company provides alternative child-focused family dispute resolution services to provide support for families. We provide counselling, family mediation, parenting coordination and certified parenting courses for divorced parents. Our director, Mrs. Wendy Woodhead also provides training and consultation for professionals in family mediation and parenting coordination.
In 2017, our company has published a book “Children of Divorce – Hong Kong Story”. A song was commissioned in English and Chinese to express the feelings and needs of such children.
Wendy Woodhead 