Special Needs Families

 

Child custody disputes are among the most emotional and stressful kinds of disputes that can occur between parents or in litigation. The dispute pits two people who care deeply about their child against each another, each parent bringing into that dispute their own background, histories, psychology, fears, anxieties, and agenda. Parents reactions leading up to and within the child custody dispute may spring from frustrations from the parents’ own childhoods, from their continuing (or failed) relationship with their own parents, from anger and upset at the way in which the other parent has treated them in the past or from the way in which they fear they will be treated because of the parent’s own psychological makeup, from past abuse or control by the other parent – or their own abuse, control or manipulation of the other parent – or myriad other reasons of which the parents themselves may not be aware. Read more…

Kansas Resources for Special Needs Children and Families