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'It's a social peace process': How mediation can prevent families from breaking up altogether

2022-01-20T12:31:25.523Z


REPORT - Imported from Quebec, mediation allows separated adults to make "tailor-made" decisions for their children and avoid legal referral.


In Alencon,

At first they were talking.

Monsieur did not believe that the separation could be final.

"He

said to me:" If you find yourself on the street one day, you can come back home

, says Anne *, in her forties, hair, eyes and black clothes.

Sitting next to her, Magali Fouque, mediator for the Normandy Generation Foundation, listens carefully to those who are coming for the first time.

We had set up an alternating residence without judgment

”.

And then, in June 2021, their 11-year-old daughter sends a letter to her school.

She said she wanted to kill herself, that her father called her good for nothing, a bitch

”.

Anne kneads her hands.

From there, there was no more dialogue.

But a social inquiry, complaints on both sides.

One of the girls takes her father's side, the other her mother's...

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Source: lefigaro

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