But, Professor Furstenberg said, both mothers and fathers who live apart from their children find it hard work to maintain a close relationship.

Its aim is to make sure that parents who live apart from their children contribute towards their upkeep by paying child maintenance.

They had been deeply, separately, wholly in love -apart from her children my mother could reclaim this love, but with them she began to drift.

He understood now that basically her dance was meant for him, as was almost everything she did these days, apart from her two children.

He lives apart from his wife, Michelle, and their two children.

But regardless of why it occurs, a result is there are hundreds, perhaps thousands, of women on Long Island living apart from their children.

"It's time in my career where I've done enough traveling, living apart from my children," he said.

I suggest you look at www.separated dads.co.uk as well, which covers all the emotional, financial and legal problems involved in being apart from your children.

But Berman, not a fan, did not want to sit apart from his children.

A close look at their London haunts on our map on the right shows the two have little in common apart from their children.