Meryn Callandar was born in Australia in 1952.  She attended Monash University in Melbourne, Victoria, graduating with degrees in both social work and economics and went on to become a social worker helping children in crisis.  For 30 years she was co-director of Wellness Resource Center with Jack Travis and they co-authored Wellness for Helping Professionals: Creating Compassionate Cultures. and then A Change of Heart: The Global Wellness Inventory.  Her own experience of birthing led to  The Wellspring Guide a quarterly publication.  She is president of The Alliance for Transforming the Lives of Children. She is the author of a new book “Why Dads Leave – Insights and Resources for when partners become parents.  She tells us that nearly 1/2 marriage in US end in divorce and that 30% of fathers leave in the first year of a child’s life