NB: Whilst you may wish to talk to older children about their hopes for and concerns about life after separation, it is absolutely critical that they are not required (or feel required) to make decisions that should properly be made by their parents.

 

Whatever choices and decisions you make, ensure that your child knows that the responsibility for them is yours and not theirs.

 Recommended books

 

Links to other organisations that can help

 

Are you considering divorce or separation?

 

What you might expect to feel

 

What other parents have felt

 

Taking care of yourself

Dealing with anger

 

Telling your children about the separation

 

What your children might feel

 

Helping your children to talk about the separation

 

Helping your children to adjust

 

Children's reunification fantasies

 

When a parent walks away

 

How children's self-esteem can be affected by family separation

 

Building children’s self-esteem

 

Counselling services for children

 

Building a new parenting relationship - the basics

 

Improving communications

 

Structured communications

 

Making parenting time arrangements

 

Helping children to live in two homes

 

Making a Parenting Agreement

 

Asking the courts to help sort out parenting arrangements

 

A Minimum Standards Compact

 

Successful negotiations - strategies for making agreements

 

Housing needs

 

Making financial parenting arrangements and child maintenance

 

What is parental responsibility?

 

Receiving information from schools and doctors

When you're prevented from having a relationship with your child

 

Family Violence

 

If you're parenting alone

 

Thinking about holidays and other special occasions

 

Parenting tips

 

Step and blended families

 

 

Help for children and young adults

 

Help for Grandparents

 

Help for prisoners and their families

 

Parents from different countries