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| MATCH |
Match was the inspiration for this
Motherwise page on mothers surviving without kids.
MATCH is dedicated to all mothers living apart from their children, and to
mothers who have little or no contact with their children.
Sometimes separations last for many years, sometimes forever.
MATCH is entirely supportive and nonjudgmental and has members of all ages
across the world. (NB New website address) |
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| ABDUCTION |
Reunite
International Child Abduction Centre
UK charity
Advice line open Mon-Fri 10:30-17:00
0207 375 3440 |
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| DIVORCE |
| Insider Secrets - How to get
contact and visitation rights.
Download Pesha's new book |
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Divorce Recovery Workshops
A national self-help charity |
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| Families need Fathers - a perspective 'from
the other side'. |
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| Parent
Alienation Syndrome |
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| Gardner's
book of the same name - pity he emphasises this as the 'role' of mothers as
fathers are just as capable of alienating their children against their
mothers. |
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| MEDIATION |
| Mediation is an evolving
profession and can be offered where parents or care-takers have become
estranged. |
| Language and
mediation |
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Bridging the Gap
A network of Child Contact Centres helps to keep 2000 children
a week in touch with both parents. |
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| WOMEN IN PRISON |
The Prism Project
How you can help a mum in prison. |
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Surviving the loss of a
child
Many mothers live their lives without their children by their side - for
many different reasons
Who can help?
Can you recover?
If so, how?
This page has a very painful message and is 'work in progress'.
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If you have the strength and will to do something today,
which you didn't yesterday, you are making progress...And that includes such
things, which you may have considered minor in the past, like washing dishes or
doing laundry.
(May Wong)
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Check out the Brilliantissimo!
The essential guide to what we need to understand if we are to handle the
challenges of changing life circumstances in a way that heals our pain and
allows us to move on.
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Five stages of loss |
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Here is the classic pattern that we go through when changes occur in our lives
(shock, denial, despair, renewal)
The first stage is denial
A shocked, "No, not me."
Next comes anger or resentment
"Why me?" Blaming self or others for what has happened.
The third stage is bargaining
"Yes me, but-" "If you'll just give me five years, God,
I'll..." A period of temporary truce.
The fourth stage is depression
A difficult time of withdrawal and silence.
Finally comes acceptance
A time of facing the situation calmly. Now the person says, "Yes,
me," with the courage to accept the reality of what is happening and find
ways of coping with the future.
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This is the first stage of the transition from 'what was' to 'what will be'.
Check out the Brilliantissimo Guide
to Transition for more information - how to 'let go', avoid the traps of
the neutral zone and move on. |
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Help us to help more mums!
Tell
a friend
about Motherwise UK |
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| BEREAVED
MOTHERS |
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SANDS
Stillbirth and Neonatal Death Society |
| provides support for bereaved
parents and their families whose baby has died at or soon after birth. Website
includes poems and stories from bereaved parents. |
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Cot death
24 hour helpline advisors
020 7233 2090 |
| Prevention links from the
Motherwise website |
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| LOSS THROUGH SUDDEN AND VIOLENT
DEATH |
| A Message for
Mothers everywhere following the events of September 11th. |
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My Parents are Survivors |
| This website consists of one very
long page but worth scrolling down. It includes Ten Tips for dealing with a
violent death from Father Kenneth Czillinger who supports parents who have lost
children through death |
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Following the murder of her 11
year old step-child, May Wong became a
bereavement counselor and crime victims' rights advocate. She is editor of The
National Directory of Bereavement Support Groups and Services and author of
'Understanding Your Grieving Heart', a warm and wise guid. Here is a
sample
chapter in which she debunks the many myths about grieving.
Available for purchase in the
US or as an e-book. |
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| POMC® provides emotional
support for parent survivors of Murdered Children |
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| More to
come... |
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| WOMEN WHOSE CHILDREN HAVE BEEN
ADOPTED |
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| TAKEN ABROAD |
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| MISSING |
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| CHILDREN BEHIND BARS |
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