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Useful articles for Families, Parents & Step Parents and Children & Teenagers

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Building a New Family is an Exciting but Challenging Time.

This Other Place

A poem by Alex

Seven Rules for Fighting Fair

The couples guide to constructive conflict resolution

Fathers Nurturing Girls

Find out why supportive and involved fathers have daughters with good self esteem who are able to be assertive in their relationships and have healthy expectations and boundaries. Don Rowlands, family counsellor.

Body Image

Positive and affirming fathers can help their daughters develop a good self image. When fathers praise and allow children to make decisions appropriate to their age, adolescents grow to resist the media and peer group pressures to conform. (Don Rowlands, Family Counsellor)

Teenage Girls and their Dads

Teenage girls need special care and monitoring when they adjust to the separation of their parents, to new stepparents and to grieve for their losses. By Don Rowlands, family counsellor, father of two daughters

Women and Their Fathers

Victoria Secunda reflects on the value of fathers to their daughters. The validation, role modelling and empathy can enrich the lives of young women.

Fathers Making a Difference

Fathers are in a unique position to encourage their daughters to speak up and to reward them when they do. This can counter the influences in society that silence a girl and encourage her to put her needs second. Don Rowlands, family counsellor

The thing to remember about fathers is, they’re men.

by PHYLLIS McGINLEY

Teenage Girls

An article by Don Rowlands, family counsellor, father of three daughters

Children and new partners

Strategies to ease the way when introducing your new partner to your established family

Tips to help stepfamilies

Looking at ways of blending families safely and avoiding curdling bad feelings

The Second Marriage

For many step families a formal acknowledgement and celebration of the new family step is a way of building togetherness and establishing personal boundaries around the new couple relationship

Stepparent Newsletter April/May 2007

Reprint of an article from the Sunday Star Times, early this year featuring an interview with Don Rowlands and Wendy Duder, co-facilitators of Home & Family's Stepparent Support Group

Stepparent Newsletter September 2007

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