How to support children with divorce, separation or parental relationship difficulties

Relate have some useful resources for understanding your child’s thoughts and behaviour.

They are some helpful online articles on how to cope when the other parent walks away, living arrangements, talking to your children about divorce and separation and when children want parents to reunite.

Decisions on future parenting and living arrangements after divorce can be extremely difficult and making them can be hard and often feel lonely.
Often the decisions need to be made involving your children too. That’s essential when a decision directly affects your children like changing school, moving house or visiting their non-resident parent. Even when decisions do not directly affect your children it can be good to involve them in the process.

Your children’s point of view can also help you to talk with their other parent.

This does not mean they actually make the decision and indeed, that could be a burden for a child or young person whatever their age. Hearing