Both Parents Matter

Objectives and activities 1. For the relief of parents and their children and other close family members suffering from the consequences of separation by providing advice, assistance and other support and in so doing, helping parents stay in touch with their children after divorce or separation. 2. To further the emotional development of children whose parents have divorced or separated by encouraging shared parenting arrangements. 3. To conduct study and research into problems concerned with children who are deprived of the presence of a parent in their families, and into the problems concerned with establishing good relations between parents living apart from their children, and to publish the useful results of all such study and research in order to encourage appropriate changes in professional and public opinion. 4. To relieve poor parents by helping to obtain and promoting the provision of legal advice, assistance and other legal services which such persons would be unable to obtain by reason of their lack of means