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Separated?
New relationship?
Kids?

Get Back on track, and find your way through separation and repartnering.

If you've got kids and have recently separated, or formed a new relationship, you're probably dealing with a lot of things right now.

First there's the emotional side - dealing with the break-up of a family. The how and why. The arguments, the anger and the pain involved. Forming a new family brings a whole range of challenges.

Nearly everyone who has ever been in a family breakdown will tell you the worst part relates to the kids. What to tell them, how to tell them. Who gets them? Where they will live, who they can see? How to tell them about new relationships.

And if you're the new partner of someone who's been through this, then you know what a roller-coaster it can be and how hard it can be to hang on. Dealing with the ex, dealing with the kids.

And then there's the money and the courts and CSA.

It's not easy when children are involved - but it is even more important to sort things out and get on with life.

Back on track: finding a way through separation and repartnering

Media release

Pro forma media release (A)
Note: All you need to localise this release is call your local council and find out the latest population data. If you can, find out the number of households or families in the municipality - it'll make the calculation easier.To work out the data, calculate the number of households that equal 20% of the total number.

Date:

MEDIA RELEASE

In-laws, outlaws and the whole damn lot

About one in five Australian families are 'repartnered' or 'step' families. Based on the latest population figures for this area, this translates into about ___ (insert number) ___ (insert name of town, suburb or district) families.

In 1997, the Australian Bureau of Statistics showed that in repartnered households where there are children, it's likely that they're living with their mother while their father pays child support (this is for seven out of eight children).

The period following separation, and the decision to repartner and form a new family, brings with it enormous challenges and decisions.

'There are issues to do with access to the kids and payment of child support, and dealing with Centrelink and the Child Support Agency,' explained ___ (insert your name) from ___ (insert name of your organisation).

'Then, when a new relationship is formed, there are a whole different set of issues. It's not easy to develop a new relationship when you've got an ex and kids - or when your new boyfriend or girlfriend has them. It can have an enormous emotional and financial impact,' said ___ (insert your name).

The following program will be offered to explore the issues to help men and women with children who are separated and/or repartnered to get back on track.

A special session(s) focusing on:

Who's it for?

What can you get out of it?

Where is it?

Why come along?

Date:
Time:
Cost:

For more information phone and ask for

Media inquiries:
Phone:
Position:
Organisation:

Pro forma media release (B)
Note:This release involves the 'testimonial' of a person who is recently separated or repartnered.You will need to get their permission to use their experience and their comments and give them the option of remaining anonymous. If they choose to remain anonymous, you should refer to them in the release as '[name of municipality] resident, mother/father of X children'.You can either handwrite the answers to the questions in the spaces provided, or retype the release and delete the questions from the final document. Make sure your subject sees, and approves the release before you issue it - and that you accommodate any changes they want to make.

Date:

MEDIA RELEASE

Separating and repartnering - local speaks out and help is at hand

Statistics show that after separation, men are more likely to repartner within four to six years. (74% of men repartner in that time compared to 54% of women).*

Nearly one million Australian children have a parent who does not live in the same house as they do.

The reality is that after a family breakdown, it is usually the father who lives elsewhere, and sees the child fortnightly while mothers have the responsibility of the daily care and discipline of the children.

How long ago did your family break up, and what is your relationship with your children like? '_________________________________________________________________,' said (insert name or municipality resident), mother/father of ___ (insert number of) children.

If you have formed a new relationship, what are the best things about it at the moment? What hopes do you have for it in the future? '_________________________________________________________________,' he/she said.

How have you organised arrangements (contact and child support) for the children with your ex-partner? How do you feel about those arrangements? '_________________________________________________________________,' he/she said.

The following program will be offered to explore the issues to help men and women who are separated and/or repartnered to get back on track.

A special session(s) focusing on:

Who's it for?

What can you get out of it?

Where is it?

Why come along?

Date:
Time:
Cost:

For more information phone and ask for

Media inquiries:
Phone:
Position:
Organisation:

* Mc Donald, P., Family Trends and Structures in Australia, AIFS, Melbourne, 1993.

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