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In Switzerland, each year, between 15,000 and 17,000 divorces are pronounced. Added to this are the separations of unmarried couples, for which there are no official statistics. And in the middle, there are children … “We know that one in four children sees his parents separating. However, if the separation is crystallized over time and the judicial machine starts, they are the first victims, ”underlines Katharina Schindler Bagnoud, co -president of the Scopale association, in Geneva.
It is to come to them that the structure was born, initiated by people working in contact with families – psychologists, social workers, lawyers – and witnesses of the damage of these conflicts, with consequences on the development of children or their health which sometimes register in the long term. The idea? Give tools to parents from separation so that things do not sclerosis. An alternative before everyone takes a lawyer, a place where couples can work on their “new co -parenting”.
