Parenting Orders For Supervision.
Helping your toddler understand when they don’t turn up.
When the Family Court orders tax-payer funded court-supervised visits, they anticipate the parent will turn up and show up as the parent they presented themselves to be in court. From experience, they know that many do not turn up.
In most cases, parents in these situations got there because they did not show up for their kids in the first place.
The law and individual situations vary considerably, though most countries share similar structures around supervision for parents, Jennifer Wolf explains it well in ‘How Supervised Visitation Works for Families.’
When a parent is safe, turns up to visits, keeps in contact when they can’t make it, shows genuine change and interest in the children at visits, that parent would be on the path to unsupervised contact with their children.
When a parent is not safe around the child, continuously postpones visits, doesn’t keep in contact regarding visits, and eventually stops turning up, that's automatic paid supervised visits only, aside from any further consequences for any breaches of protection and parenting orders.
“The notion that infants must “know their mothers and fathers” and have…
