Parenting through Separation is a free voluntary information programme for parents and aims to help separating parents help their children. A summary of participant feedback is available as a PDF below.
The feedback shows that 94 percent of the 10,353 participants who completed an evaluation form either agreed or strongly agreed that the programme was interesting.
A similarly high proportion of participants either agreed or strongly agreed the programme helped them understand how separation affects children and would tell friends to go to a Ministry of Justice information programme for parents.
Eighty five percent of participants strongly agreed or agreed that the programme helped them to understand how the Family Court works.
Most participants were positive about the quality of the programme – the presentations, discussions and handouts.
The participants’ evaluations have been reasonably consistent for each year the programme has been run, suggesting that the programme has been delivered consistently over the four years’ data analysed.
Ninety three percent of NZ European participants and ninety one percent of Māori participants either agreed or strongly agreed that they would tell friends to go to a Ministry of Justice information programme.
Fifty nine percent of the participants were female, forty percent male. Twenty six percent of the participants returning evaluations were between 35 – 44 years old, fifteen percent between 45- 54 years old and ten percent between 25-34 years old.
Ninety percent of the participants were separated and eight percent were not. Of those separated participants, forty four percent had been separated for more than twelve months and thirty nine percent for six months or less.
Fifteen percent had been separated for between seven to twelve months.
Seventy three percent of participants identified their ethnicity as New Zealand Europeans, sixteen percent Māori, three percent Samoan and two percent Tongan.