A charity helping new parents after having a baby is one of six organisations which will benefit from hundreds of thousands of pounds raised by the Church of Scotland's Guild.
Care for the Family Scotland has been announced as one of the guild's chosen charities for the next three years.
As the Church's voluntary organisation, the guild has more than 22,600 members in 890 groups across Scotland, and has raised more than £670,000 for the projects it adopted during 2012-2015.
Others who will benefit in Scotland include Street Pastors, and a project to make churches welcoming for people with learning disabilities.
Abroad, there's support for tackling Female Genital Mutilation in Kenya, an environmental project in Bolivia and a missionary project in Haiti.
Each of the six projects adopted by the guild can expect to raise around £100,000 during the 2015-2018 fundraising cycle.
The guild's national convener, Kay Keith, said Care for the Family, Scotland - like the other five projects-is meeting a very real need and that more than half of all new parents who divorce or separate do so within three years of having a child.
She said: "It's a very exhilarating time when you have a new baby, but it's also a time of great change for the family and the beginning of a new life.
"Some couples don't make it and it seems a bit easier today for couples not to stick together.
"We recognise that a huge part of that is about communication and understanding what is going on.
"Care for the Family Scotland helps new parents build strong family relationships and stick together through tough times.
"As an organisation that is very much concerned with children and with encouraging and helping and the family unit, we wanted to support this work."
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