Stuck in middle of warring exes

Separated couples should parent as one, for the children’s sake, says Helen O’Callaghan.

One of the difficulties for separating couples is that time spent with their children — for one partner — is in short supply.

“I remember one father saying ‘I can’t get my head around the fact that I won’t see my kids at breakfast’. The casualness of them being around all the time was gone,” says family mediator, Fiona McAuslan.