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Ask any Family Practitioner and they will tell you that mediation on its own does not work. As one of my clients put it, 'it just echos the dynamic of the original relationship'. Mediation does not in my experience benefit down-trodden women who probably form the vast majority of people trying to access what was once a LEGAL system with laws passed and evolved to prevent or minimise abuse. Let's be clear; the current buzz for mediation is all about court budgets and nothing to do with what might work to help couples and their children at times of enormous emotional stress. It works when people (men mostly and I am a man) realize that if they don't mediate sensibly they may come off very badly, and that only happens when the court process is actually hanging over them.

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