Coping with divorce or separation

Talking to young children about divorce and separation

Practical advice and support for you

  • Information about family mediation, custody and child arrangement orders

  • Click Online relationship support from experts and the community. Advice and other people’s stories on coping as a single parent, parenting together when you’re separated, telling your children about a new partner and much more
  • Gingerbread supports single-parent families with heaps of practical advice and a section on support for you and your child or children if you’re going through a separation.
  • Families Need Fathers can also offer support to both parents. They have local branch meetings throughout the UK and online meetings too. 
  • Andy Man’s Club run support groups for men throughout the UK. This is for men, and they can talk about the storms affecting their lives in a safe, judgement-free, and non-clinical environment

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