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Finding the Best Ways Forward: Report on the Symposium on Children’s Participation in Justice Processes
December 12, 2017 By John-Paul Boyd
In mid-September 2017, the Canadian Research Institute for Law and the Family and the Alberta Office of the Child and Youth Advocate (“OCYA”) hosted an innovative two-day national symposium on children’s participation in justice processes in Calgary, Alberta. The symposium brought together leading stakeholders from across Canada, including judges and lawyers, mental health professionals, and […]
Filed Under: Vol 42-3: Children in the Justice System
Conflict Between Parents, Part 3: More Strategies to Reduce Conflict, Active Listening and Looping
November 1, 2017 By John-Paul Boyd
In Part 1 of this article, I wrote about the effects conflict between parents can have on their children. In Part 2, I talked about a number of techniques to defuse or diminish conflict, including a few basic communication strategies. In this, the final part of the series, I’m going to talk about two more […]
Conflict Between Parents, ﻿﻿Part 2: Strategies to Reduce Conflict
September 8, 2017 By John-Paul Boyd
In Part 1 of this article, I wrote about the effects conflict between parents can have on their children. In this part of the article, I’m going to talk about some steps parents can take to protect children from their conflict. First, the bad news. Children are commonly negatively affected when their parents separate. Separation […]
Conflict Between Parents, Part 1: The Effect of Conflict on Children
July 5, 2017 By John-Paul Boyd
When parents separate, they must find ways of answering a lot of difficult questions about how they will care for and manage their children. Where will the children live? How much time will each parent spend with them? How will decisions about the children be made? Who will pay child support, and how much will […]
Symposium on Children’s Participation in Justice Processes Coming to Calgary
May 15, 2017 By John-Paul Boyd
Canada and its provinces are signatories to the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, an international treaty that requires governments to recognize children’s fundamental human rights. In particular, Article 12 of the Convention says that children must be given “the opportunity to be heard in any judicial and administrative proceedings” affecting them. Many […]
Filed Under: Family Law Tagged With: child advocacy, family law