CRC KIDS
We, the children of parents who have or about to end their relationship as we know it, deserve fair and just treatment by each of you. We ask you to consider us while we all go through the changes occurring within our family. To make it easy for you to think of us, we have agreed on some things that we think you should consider.
We are your children and we love each of you!
1. We need to be told that we are half of each of you and that you both love us, no matter what happens with your relationship.
2. We deserve to be treated as important people with our own ideas, feelings, wishes and not as property for one of you to “win”.
3. We want to have our questions about our changing family answered respectfully, with age-appropriate answers that do not include you blaming or belittling each other.
4. We want to make our own judgments about each of our parents and to be allowed to love both of you without one degrading the other to us.
5. We want to learn from both of you about your religious ideas, hobbies, interests and experiences.
6. It hurts us to be asked or expected to take sides against one of you.
7. We never want to be made the method of our parents’ communication by being asked to deliver messages back and forth.
8. We never want to be made a messenger by being told to carry notes, legal papers, money or anything else between you.
9. We want to never be asked to spy or to be interrogated about events in the other parent’s home.
10. We want you to know that it hurts when you treat us like leverage in your fight.
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