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Ahead of my interview for the section 7 next week and despite all the animosity created in the process including a complaint I put in on the officer I need some advice....lol
I will be subject to the usual allegations of DV, my parents being unsuitable, our baby being breast dependent at (with my wife doing late and night shifts).
Any suggestions of questions I will have?
How do I avoid spending 90mins in a mud slinging contest and try and bring the officer back to just concentrating on the kids?
BW
....Just try and steer the conversations away from acrimony and at every opportunity talk about the relationship YOU have with the kids! information about how you dropped hours at work to share the day to day care and how close your children are to you...There are ways of criticising the mother without appearing to do so.....how she found it difficult to cope independently of you and the necessity for you to drop hours to accommodate this, but how that gave you the chance to be a hands on Dad and to develop a very close bond with them early on... Talk about how the children are fully integrated into the extended family dynamic and how you believe it is their right to have a close relationship with both parents and their extended families....you know the kind of thing Boycie.
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