Families Change Parent Guide to Separation & Divorce

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This parent’s guide is a companion to A Kid’s Guide to Separation and Divorce and Teen Guide to Separation and Divorce. Telling the Children, Feelings and Emotions, and Dealing with Change provide information to help you to:

  • Detach your feelings about the separation from your parental responsibilities
  • Understand your children’s need to have a relationship with the other parent
  • Communicate effectively with your children
  • Help your children cope with the family break up

The Child Support section of this guide will help parents make an agreement about child support without going to court. It answers questions about who pays for child support and how to calculate the right amount. It also deals with different parenting arrangements, special or extraordinary expenses, when child support ends, and what to do if a parent doesn’t want to pay child support.

Parent Guide

 

Separation and divorce have a profound impact on families. The stress can be overwhelming as parents struggle to take care of the emotional and financial needs of their children and themselves.

This information helps parents guide their children through separation and divorce, and calculate a child support amount to cover the costs of raising their children.

This parent’s guide is a companion to A Kids Guide to Separation and Divorce and a Teen Guide to Separation and Divorce.

 

Kids Guide  Teens Guide

 

Dealing with Change

What parents can do to help their children cope better with the separation or divorce.

Feelings and Emotions

The types of feelings your children may be experiencing and what you can do if they act out.

Telling the Children

How you deal with this crucial step will have a great impact on how your children adapt to this change in their lives.

Child Support

Child support is the money one parent pays the other for the financial support of their child or children.

Using the Parent Guide

This Parent Guide provides information to help you to:

  • Detach your feelings about the separation from your parental responsibilities.
  • Understand your children's need to have a relationship with the other parent.
  • Communicate effectively with your children.
  • Help your children cope with the family break up.

The child support section of this guide will help parents make an agreement about child support without going to court. It answers questions about who pays for child support and how to calculate child support. The Parent Guide also deals with different parenting arrangements, special and extraordinary expenses, getting help, and more…