Families Need Fathers
Families Need Fathers (FNF) [1] is a registered UK charity, founded in 1974, which provides information and support to parents, including unmarried parents, of either sex. FNF is chiefly concerned with the problems of maintaining a child's relationship with both parents during and after family breakdown, and has acquired over 10,000 members in its 30-year history.
The group's volunteer members offer advice to parents, which aims to be child-centred. Hence the advice here originally worked out by children who took part in a divorce survival class:
- Don't ask us what happened while with the other parent
- Don't ask us to keep secrets
- Don't put us in a position where we have to tell lies
- Don't ask us to take sides
- Don't take out your anger on us
- Don't get into competition with one another
- Do allow us to love both parents without being got at by either
- Don't ask us to choose between you
See also
Other Organisations in this field
- Parenting Education & Support Forum (PESF)
- Child Support Agency (CSA)
- National Association for Child Support Action (NACSA)
- Children and Family Court Advisory and Support Service (CAFCASS)
- Department for Constitutional Affairs
- Department For Education and Skills (DFES)
- Parentline Plus
- Fathers Direct
- Mothers Apart from Their Children (MATCH)
- Relate (formerly the Marriage Guidance Council)
- Fathers 4 Justice
Research
- Joseph Rowntree Foundation
- Economic & Social Research Council
- Department of Social Policy and Social Work, University of Oxford
- Distress among children whose separated or divorced parents cannot agree arrangements for them, British Journal of Social Work, 33, 227-238, Bream, V. & Buchanan, A., 2003
- Promoting Children's Emotional Well-being - Messages from Research (Ann Buchanan and Barbara Hudson)
- Centre for Research into Parenting and Children
External links
- Families Need Fathers web site
- Map
- FNF regional web sites
- Directory of MPs
- More Links