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 help 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.
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 may help parents make an agreement about child support without going to court. It answers questions about who pays 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…
