Children's Bill of Rights in a Divorce

Don’t Take Your Children’s Feelings For Granted

The Children’s Bill of Rights is something we like to mention during or before a divorce involving children. We feel the issues discussed here are ones that often parents need to be reminded of. Things like not being forced to get involved in grown-up issues and remembering not to treat them like pawns during or after a divorce. After all, kids are people too.

For the sake of a child’s education, their daily routine, and to help them better associate with family and/or friends, parents are requested to always remember that children deserve the following:

• The right not to be asked or expected to choose sides or be put in a situation where I would have to take one parent’s side against the other.

• The right to be treated as a person and not as a pawn, possession or negotiating chip.

• The right to freely and privately communicate with both parents.

• The right not to be asked questions by one parent about the other.

• The right to not be a messenger.

• The right to express my feelings.

• The right to ample visitation with the non-custodial parent which will best serve my needs and wishes.

• The right to love and have a relationship with both parents equally, without being made to feel guilty.

• The right to not hear either parent say anything bad about the other.

• The right to the same educational opportunities and economic support, if at all possible that I would have had if my parents did not divorce.

• The right to have what is in my best interest protected at all times.

• The right to maintain my status as a child and not be expected to take on adult responsibilities for the sake of the parent’s well-being.

• The right to request my parents seek appropriate emotional and social support for me and them when needed.

• The right to expect consistent parenting at a time when little in my life seems constant or secure.

• The right to expect healthy relationship modeling, despite the recent events.

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