Advice for separated parents

How to Import Emails into Your Family Calendar

Let Co-parenting be your personal secretary. Turn school emails into calendar suggestions and set up automatic forwarding from your inbox.

How to Import Your Child’s School Calendar

Add school holidays and term dates to your shared family calendar. Learn how to import dates for children at different schools in Co-parenting.

How Toxic Messages to Your Co-Parent Affect Your Child

Hostile texts and emails to your co-parent reach your child even if they never read them. Child psychologist Malin Bergström explains why — and what helps.

How the Stricter AI Filter Works

Learn how TalkSafe scores messages, suggests rewrites and blocks very toxic wording, what strict mode changes, and why your setting stays private.

Parental Responsibility in England: Who Makes Which Decisions?

England

After separation, you may still share responsibility for important decisions about your child. In England, this is called parental responsibility. It is separate from how many nights your child spends in each home.

Child Arrangements in England: Making a Workable Parenting Plan

England

A child arrangements plan explains where your child lives, when they spend time with each parent and how everyday care works. In England, parents can make their own agreement when it is safe to do so. If agreement is not possible, the Family Court can decide.

The Child’s Best Interests in England: What Courts Look At

England

When a court decides arrangements for a child in England, the child’s welfare comes first. That means looking at the child’s actual needs and safety, not simply choosing an equal timetable or deciding which parent has the stronger grievance.

Family Court in England: A Step-by-Step Guide for Parents

England

If arrangements for your child cannot be agreed, the Family Court can decide where they live, who they spend time with or a specific question such as schooling. Here is what usually happens in England, and what you can prepare at each stage.

Parenting Disputes in England: Who Can Help with What?

England

You do not have to understand every part of the family system before asking for help. In England, start with the problem you need solved: making a plan, understanding a court case, protecting a child or arranging financial support.

Making a Parenting Plan in England

England

A clear plan can reduce last-minute messages and misunderstandings. Here is what a parenting plan can cover in England, and how it differs from a court order.

Moving with Your Child in England: What to Check First

England

A move can change your child’s school journey, contact with a parent and access to support. Before making a firm plan in England, check the existing arrangements and whether the proposed move needs agreement or a court decision.

Can I Choose Which Parent to Live with in England?

England

You are allowed to say how living in two homes feels. If you live in England, adults should listen to your views—but you do not have to solve your parents’ disagreement.

Feeling Safe at Home: A Guide for Children in England

England

You deserve care, safety and someone who listens. If something at home feels frightening or hurts you, you can ask for help—even when the person involved is a parent.

Child Maintenance in England: Arranging Payments for Your Child

England

Child maintenance is money towards your child’s living costs. In England, parents can agree payments themselves or use the Child Maintenance Service. Here is how to choose a starting point, understand the calculation and keep payments on track.

Child Maintenance and Shared Care in England

England

When your child stays in both homes, the Child Maintenance Service looks at overnight stays and day-to-day care. These are different questions. An equal number of nights does not, by itself, mean that no maintenance is due.

When Child Maintenance Is Not Paid in England

England

A missed payment can leave an immediate gap in your child’s budget. The next step depends on whether you have a private arrangement or a case with the Child Maintenance Service. Start with the payment record and the type of arrangement you have.

Which Address Does Your Child Use After Separation in England?

England

When your child lives in two homes, school, the doctor and benefit services may each need updated details. This checklist explains the main address questions for parents in England.

Dividing Money and Property After Separation in England

England

The home may be the first worry, but pensions, savings, debts and future living costs also matter. In England, married couples and civil partners have a financial settlement process alongside ending the relationship. People who were not married have different rules.

Help with Rent After Separation in England

England

If one income now has to cover your home, start by checking help with rent and Council Tax. In England, most working-age parents making a new claim look at Universal Credit. Some housing situations use Housing Benefit instead.

Your Child’s Healthcare in Two Homes in England

England

After separation, your child still needs reliable access to their GP, medicines and appointments. In England, begin with their NHS care and the information each household needs. Private insurance, if you have it, is a separate policy to check.

When Your Income Drops After Separation in England

England

A lost job, illness or a child’s care emergency can affect your income in different ways. In England, the payment or leave available depends on why you cannot work. Start with that question, then check any benefits or maintenance arrangement that needs updating.

Saving for Your Child After Separation in England

England

Before deciding how much to save, decide who the money belongs to and when it should be available. A Junior ISA can protect long-term savings for a child, but it is not a fund parents can draw on for school bills or an emergency.

Benefits After Separation in England: Where to Start

England

After separation, check both the money coming in and the information held on your claims. Child Benefit, Universal Credit and help with housing do different jobs. Shared care does not automatically split each payment between parents.

Someone to Talk to When Your Parents Separate in England

England

You might feel sad, angry, relieved or unsure what you feel. If you live in England, there are people who can listen. You do not have to wait until things feel unbearable.

Understanding Your Child Custody Arrangements in the United States

United States

Who can choose a school, agree to treatment or change the weekly schedule? The answer comes from the rights set out in your custody arrangement. This guide explains the main terms and how to find the part that answers your question.

Planning Parenting Time in the United States

United States

A workable schedule tells your child where they will be and tells the adults who is responsible. Here is what a parenting-time plan can cover, how it becomes an order, and what to check when arrangements stop working.

How Do Courts Decide What Is Best for a Child in the United States?

United States

Courts look at how a proposed arrangement will affect the child’s life, relationships and safety. Understanding that focus can make a custody case less confusing, even though the exact legal tests depend on the state.

Going to Court About Child Custody in the United States

United States

A custody case usually involves forms, notice to the other parent, possible help to reach agreement and one or more court hearings. This guide explains those stages so you can understand the instructions from your own court.

Who Can Help with Parenting, Support and Safety in the United States?

United States

The right service depends on what needs to happen next: make a parenting plan, obtain a court decision, collect child support or protect a child. This guide helps you distinguish those roles and prepare for a first contact.

Making a Parenting Agreement in the United States

United States

A written plan can reduce uncertainty about school weeks, holidays and handovers. In the United States, its legal effect depends on your state and whether the court has approved it.

Moving Home with Your Child in the United States

United States

A move can change school, travel and how often your child sees each parent. The key questions are what the current order allows, what notice is required and whether the proposed arrangements need a court decision.

Can I Choose Which Parent to Live with in the United States?

United States

You can tell adults what living in two homes feels like. In the United States, how a court hears children depends on the state. You are not responsible for deciding your parents’ dispute.

Feeling Safe at Home: A Guide for Children in the United States

United States

You deserve care and protection from harm. If someone at home hurts you, threatens you or leaves you without the care you need, you can tell a safe adult.

How Child Support Works in the United States

United States

Child support helps pay for the ordinary costs of raising your child, including having a home, food and clothes. Here is how payments are worked out, how to get an arrangement recorded, and what happens when circumstances change in the United States.

Do You Pay Child Support with Equal Care in the United States?

United States

A child can spend half their time with each parent and still need a child-support payment between households. The amount depends on the local calculation, both households’ circumstances and the costs covered by the order.

What Happens If Child Support Is Not Paid in the United States?

United States

If child support is late or only partly paid, the first useful distinction is whether you already have a support order. Here is how collection works in the United States, what records help, and where to look for help with immediate costs.

Your Child’s Address, School and Tax Records After Separation in the United States

United States

If your child lives in two homes, school and tax records need to reflect the right information. In the United States, these services ask different questions. One address update does not settle them all.

Sorting Out Money and Property After Separation in the United States

United States

The home is only part of the financial picture. Savings, debts, retirement accounts and the history of each asset can all matter. This guide explains the main questions and a practical way to organise the information.

Finding Help with Rent in the United States

United States

If rent is taking more than you can manage after separation, there are several possible housing programmes. They have different applications and waiting lists. Here is how to find the right starting point and prepare the information it needs.

Keeping Your Child’s Health Insurance After Separation in the United States

United States

The priority is to know that your child is enrolled, which care the plan covers, and what each household will pay. A court order about insurance and the insurer’s enrolment records are separate things.

If You Lose Income or Need Family Leave in the United States

United States

When earnings fall, there are three separate questions: can you take time off, will any money replace your pay, and will health coverage continue? This guide explains the main routes so you can check the part that fits your situation.

Saving for Your Child After Separation in the United States

United States

Before choosing an account, decide what the money is for and who should control it. A parent’s savings, a gift held for a child and a 529 education plan have different ownership and withdrawal rules.

What Financial Help Can Separated Parents Get in the United States?

United States

If money is tight after separation, begin with the bill that cannot wait. Food, healthcare, housing, lost earnings and child support have different routes. You do not have to understand every programme before making a first enquiry.

Someone to Talk to When Your Parents Separate in the United States

United States

You may be worried, angry, relieved or not sure what you feel. If your parents are separating, you can ask someone to listen. You do not have to handle it alone.

Parenting Decisions After Separation in Canada

Canada

Who chooses the school? Who can agree to treatment? Who handles the ordinary decisions during a child’s stay? In Canada, the answers depend on the applicable law and your parenting arrangement. The federal Divorce Act separates major decisions from day-to-day care.

Parenting Time in Canada: Building a Plan for Two Homes

Canada

A parenting plan works best when it explains the child’s ordinary week as well as holidays. In Canada, families use agreements and court orders to set out care after separation. The details should fit the child’s needs, safety and practical circumstances.

A Child’s Best Interests in Canada: What the Court Considers

Canada

A parenting decision should fit the child in front of the court. Under Canada’s Divorce Act, the child’s best interests are the only basis for a parenting decision, with their safety, security and well-being given primary consideration.

Family Court About Parenting in Canada: What to Expect

Canada

If you cannot resolve a parenting question, a court can make a decision about your child’s care. In Canada, the forms and steps depend on the province or territory and the type of case. This guide explains the main stages and how to find the right local process.

Family Justice Services in Canada: Finding the Right Help

Canada

You may need someone to explain paperwork, help with a parenting plan or respond to a safety concern. Canada’s family justice services vary by province and territory. Start with the job you need help doing, then find the service that handles it locally.

Making a Parenting Plan in Canada

Canada

A parenting plan puts the everyday arrangements in one place. For families in Canada, a useful plan explains both the weekly routine and how bigger decisions will be made.

Moving with Your Child in Canada: Notice and Relocation Rules

Canada

A move that disrupts a child’s relationships can need more than an address update. Under Canada’s Divorce Act, relocation has specific notice and objection rules. Check the applicable law and existing orders before treating a proposed moving date as settled.

Can I Choose Which Parent to Live with in Canada?

Canada

You can say what life in two homes feels like. If you live in Canada, adults should listen to your views. You do not have to settle the disagreement between your parents.

Feeling Safe at Home: A Guide for Children in Canada

Canada

You deserve care and protection from harm. If something at home hurts or frightens you, you can ask for help. You do not need to know the law before talking to a safe adult.

Child Support in Canada: How Payments Are Worked Out

Canada

Child support helps cover a child’s costs after parents separate. The amount depends on the rules that apply to your family, income and parenting arrangements. Start with the applicable guidelines, then work out how payments will be recorded, updated and collected.

Child Support with Shared Parenting in Canada

Canada

Both homes have costs when a child spends substantial time with each parent. Under Canada’s Federal Child Support Guidelines, shared parenting does not automatically cancel support or make subtracting two table amounts the final answer.

Unpaid Child Support in Canada: Where to Get Help

Canada

If child support is missing, start with the order or written agreement and a record of payments. Every Canadian province and territory has a service that can help enforce support. The enrolment rules and name of that service depend on where you live.

Updating Your Child’s Address and Records in Canada

Canada

When a child lives in two homes, several services may need updated information. In Canada, school, health coverage and child benefits each have their own process. Here is a checklist to work through.

Property After Separation in Canada: Where to Start

Canada

The rules for dividing property in Canada depend on the province or territory and whether you were married. Begin by identifying the applicable rules, listing the assets and debts and checking deadlines. Ontario provides one useful example of how a system can work.

Housing Help After Separation in Canada

Canada

If your new household cannot cover the rent, check housing assistance where you live. In Canada, many programs are delivered by provinces, territories and local organisations. Eligibility, waiting lists and available help depend on your location and circumstances.

Healthcare for a Child in Two Homes in Canada

Canada

Keep three things clear after separation: your child’s public health coverage, any additional insurance and the plan for appointments and medicines. In Canada, public coverage is managed by the province or territory, while extra benefits may come from another program or an employer.

Income Support After Job Loss or Illness in Canada

Canada

When earnings stop, the right support depends on why you cannot work. Canada’s Employment Insurance has different benefits for job loss and medical absence. Check those alongside employer benefits, local assistance and any family payments that need updating.

Education Savings After Separation in Canada: Understanding RESPs

Canada

A Registered Education Savings Plan can help save for education after high school. After separation, the practical questions are who controls the plan, how contributions are coordinated and what happens when the child needs the money.

Canada Child Benefit After Separation: Claims and Shared Care

Canada

The Canada child benefit is a monthly government payment for eligible families with children under 18. After separation, who receives it and how much they receive depend on the child’s care arrangements, household income and the other eligibility rules.

Someone to Talk to When Your Parents Separate in Canada

Canada

Changing homes or hearing your parents argue can feel like a lot to carry. If you live in Canada, you can ask someone to listen—even when there is no emergency or court case.

The Family Calendar That Fills Itself In

Photograph a school notice, forward an email, or import school term dates — the AI fills in the shared co-parenting calendar while you just check and save.

How to Manage Summer Planning in a Co-parenting Family

Summer planning when you share custody: start early, agree on the holiday weeks, swap days when you need to, and balance old traditions with new ones.

Book Interview: Vardag med Varannan Vecka

Psychologist Maria Farm and journalist Lisa Bjärbo wrote a Swedish-language book about everyday life after separation. In this interview, they explain why they wanted to discuss the questions that keep returning as children grow, from money to routines and new family relationships.

Read the Co-parenting Report on Shared Custody in Sweden

How do families in Sweden live every other week? Read our report on shared custody: background, regional differences, and family finances. In Swedish.

Your Right to Feel Safe at Home in Sweden

Sweden

You deserve care, respect and protection from harm. In Sweden, adults are not allowed to hit children or treat them in a degrading way. You can ask for help if home feels unsafe.

The Shared Calendar Makes Your Life Easier

See the whole month at a glance, build your child's living schedule, and keep both homes in sync. How the Co-parenting shared calendar works.

Checklist: Separating With Children

Separating with children? A checklist of what to sort out first: where everyone lives, the schedule, handovers, money, sick days, and what to tell the kids.

Tough Questions From Your Child – How Do You Respond?

What to say when your child asks if you still love each other, or who wanted the divorce. Example answers to six tough questions, from a child psychologist.

Living in Two Homes: Help for Children Finding Their Routine

Living in two homes can feel good sometimes and difficult at other times. You might enjoy time with each parent and still hate packing. You do not have to choose one feeling, and you do not have to make the arrangement work on your own.

Everyday Parenting in Two Homes: A Swedish Perspective

The Swedish term växelvis boende describes a child living alternately in each parent’s home. One useful idea in the original discussion by child psychologist Malin Bergström is to look beyond visits: what ordinary care and relationships does the child need to keep?

Which Address Is Your Child Registered at in Sweden?

Sweden

A child can live in two homes but have only one registered address in Sweden. Skatteverket decides that registration. Here is how it works when parents live apart.

How the Co-parenting App Works

See how the Co-parenting app works: a shared hub for your children's calendar, chat, lists and expenses, plus how to sign up and invite your co-parent.

How Should We Communicate About the Children?

How to talk to your co-parent about the children without it turning into a fight: treat each other as colleagues, agree what you discuss and how often.

Here's What Researchers Say About Alternate Living

Most children do well living in two homes, research shows, though not all. What researchers say about alternate living and how to talk to your parents.

How Are You Feeling? Support for Kids When Parents Divorce

If your parents are getting divorced, it is never your fault, and things do get easier. Ideas for finding calm, a safe place of your own and a new normal.

Someone to Talk to When Your Parents Separate in Sweden

Sweden

You do not have to handle every worry on your own. In Sweden, you can talk to a safe adult, contact Bris or use another youth support service about what your parents’ separation is like for you.

Can I Choose Which Parent to Live with in Sweden?

Sweden

You can tell adults what life in two homes feels like. In Sweden, your views matter. You do not have to choose a parent to keep someone happy or solve the adults’ disagreement.

It’s Okay to Say Everything Isn’t Okay

If your parents are divorcing, you don't have to pretend everything is fine. Advice for kids on parents who ask too much, badmouth each other, or fight.

How Parents Might React When They Split Up

For children and teenagers: why parents get angry, sad, restless or shut down after a divorce, what the feelings mean, and why things usually calm down.

Life After Parents Separate: A Guide for Children

When parents get divorced, life can feel a bit upside down for a while. It can help to know the stages most families go through — and that things usually get easier and better in the end.

How to Tell Others About Your Separation

Agreeing on a shared message about your separation can feel awkward, but it means you back each other up publicly — even if you feel deeply betrayed inside (that's okay). Here are tips for simple, clear communication that reassures your children and you.

How to Talk to Your Children About Your Separation

Telling your children about a separation is hard. Child psychologist Malin Bergström on when to tell them, what to say and how to handle the days after.

Give Your Child Hope!

Children need to hear that things will get better. Child psychologist Malin Bergström on how to give your child hope while you get through a divorce.

Making Your Child Feel at Home After Separation

How to make your child feel at home after separation: involve them in the move, create their own corner, and handle a smaller home without a spare room.

When a Parent Disappears from a Child’s Life

When a parent disappears from a child's life, the child still needs answers. Child psychologist Malin Bergström on how to talk about an absent parent.

When Your Child Misses the Other Parent

It's natural for a child with two homes to miss a parent. How to acknowledge the longing, when to allow a call or an extra night, and how to stay calm.

Separation Can Lead to Feelings of Loss

A separation brings real losses: your identity as part of a couple, financial security, the nuclear family. Psychologist Malin Bergström on facing them.

Check In With Yourself During a Separation

Taking care of yourself matters during a separation. Four calm questions to check in with yourself, plus small routines for home, food, exercise, and work.

Moving Home with Sole Custody in Sweden

Sweden

Sole custody in Sweden usually means you make the important decisions about your child’s personal affairs. A move still needs to take account of the child’s needs and any existing contact arrangements.

Moving Home with Joint Custody in Sweden

Sweden

A move can change your child’s school, travel and daily care. If you have joint custody in Sweden, important decisions about the child generally need both custodians’ involvement.

Child Maintenance When Your Child Lives in Two Homes in Sweden

Sweden

Equal time does not always mean equal resources. In Sweden, a parent may still need to pay child maintenance when the child lives with both parents, especially when their finances differ significantly.

How to Ease Transitions Between Homes

Practical tips for smoother transitions between two homes: packing together, warm welcome-home routines, and what to do if your child resists the move.

Insults Between Parents

Good communication is the backbone of co-parenting — but sometimes one or both parents cross the line of what's acceptable, occasionally or as a recurring pattern. How do you tell ordinary disagreement from real insults, and when does it become destructive?

More Tips to Minimize Conflict Between Parents

Practical ways to reduce conflict with your co-parent: keep your agreements, use I statements, stay out of their parenting and help out when you can.

Parenting Schedules for Two Homes: Alternating Weeks and Other Options

Practical examples of 7+7, 2-2-3 and other parenting schedules, with questions to help you find a routine that works for your child.

Living Arrangements: Alternating Weeks or Something Else?

How should your child live after a separation — alternating weeks, another split, or one main home? Here's what matters most when you decide.

When Kids Favor One Parent

It is common for a child to prefer one parent, and it is usually a phase. Why it happens, and what helps both the favorite and the left-out parent.

"My Co-Parent Doesn’t Want to Use the App"

Co-parent not answering your invitation, or saying no to the app? Find out why, start using it yourself, and see other ways to get cooperation going.

How to Cancel the App

Cancel your Co-parenting subscription step by step via the App Store or Google Play, delete your account, and see why deleting alone doesn't stop billing.

TalkSafe: The AI Chat Filter That Stops Offensive Messages

TalkSafe reads tone, not just words: it catches belittling, irony and veiled threats, suggests kinder rewrites and blocks the worst messages outright.

Kids' Activities: Share the Info Once

Add practices, dentist visits, and packing notes once — your co-parent, the children, and anyone else who needs to know sees them right away.

How the Packing List, Lists and To-Dos Work

How the Packing List, Lists and To-Dos work in the Co-parenting app: check off what the child takes between homes, share wishlists and split tasks.

The Chat Simplifies Your Communication

Keep every message about the kids in one place. How chat threads and visibility work, and how the TalkSafe AI filter stops toxic messages before they send.

Images & Child Info Make It Easy to Stay Connected

Share photos, clothing sizes, vaccinations and account logins with your co-parent in one place, so both homes stay up to date without having to ask.

When Children Cope "Extra Well" After a Separation

Some children cope with a separation by becoming extra responsible and high-achieving. What it looks like, why it happens, and how to help them relax.

When Divorce Affects Your Child's Schoolwork

Divorce can make it hard for a child to concentrate at school. Why schoolwork suffers, how to help with homework, and when to ask the school for support.

Children Who Go Quiet or Withdraw

Quiet children and teenagers who withdraw are often struggling to find the words, not shutting you out. How to build trust without pushing them to talk.

Teenagers Need Special Attention from Both Parents

Teenagers pull away after a separation but still need limits. How both parents can keep track, set shared boundaries, and stay close to their teen.

Children's Anger and Tantrums After Separation

Angrier child since the separation? Anger is often masked grief. A child psychologist explains why tantrums increase and how to set limits and stay close.

Food, Sleep, and Physical Symptoms After a Separation

Trouble sleeping, a lost appetite or stomach aches after a separation are common. Child psychologist Malin Bergström on how to help your child feel better.

Children's Grief, Anxiety, and Depression After Divorce

Sadness, worry and depression are common when parents separate. Learn how to spot what your child is grieving, open a conversation and give real hope.

What Can Familjerätten Help with in Sweden?

Sweden

Familjerätten is the municipal family law service. If you are separating in Sweden, it can help explain parenting options, support discussions and assist with certain agreements about your child.

Help When Child Maintenance Is Missing in Sweden

Sweden

If the other parent pays too little maintenance or none at all, Försäkringskassan may be able to help. Its maintenance-support benefit is called underhållsstöd.

How Child Maintenance Works in Sweden

Sweden

Child maintenance helps pay for your child’s everyday needs. In Sweden, the amount depends on the child’s costs and what each parent can afford, rather than a fixed percentage of salary.

Help with Housing Costs for Parents in Sweden

Sweden

If your income is low, bostadsbidrag may help with housing costs. Children can sometimes count even when they stay part-time. New rules apply from January 2027.

What Financial Help Can Separated Parents Get in Sweden?

Sweden

You do not have to check every payment at once. In Sweden, start with the costs or care needs that are hardest to manage: housing, everyday child costs, missing maintenance or extra care.

When Your Child Ignores You or Turns to the "Wrong" Parent

If your child ignores you or only wants the other parent, it's usually a way of coping — not rejection. A child psychologist explains how to respond.

When Your Co-Parent Badmouths You in Front of the Children

Is your co-parent speaking badly about you in front of the children? Child psychologist Malin Bergström on how to respond and help your child cope.

How Can I Reduce Conflict With My Co-Parent?

Conflict between separated parents hurts children of every age, and anger and disappointment weigh on the whole parent-child relationship. The good news: you don't have to accept the arguing — there are concrete steps you can take to reduce conflict and keep new fights from starting.

How to Get More Out of the Co-parenting App

Get more out of the Co-parenting app: sync the shared calendar with your own, build a private photo album for the kids, and find articles worth reading.

How Children React to Separation and Divorce

How do children react to divorce? Child psychologist Malin Bergström explains common reactions, why they come in waves, and how you can support your child.

How to Introduce a New Partner to Your Child

When should a new partner meet your children? Advice on timing, telling your co-parent first, keeping the focus on your child, and how bonus families work.

Ending a Relationship Properly Is Key to Stable Co-Parenting

Co-parenting gets easier once the couple relationship is truly over. Child psychologist Malin Bergström on grief, triggers, forgiveness and moving on.

Self-Care During a Separation Crisis

When a separation turns into a crisis, self-care matters. Psychologist Malin Bergström on sleep, food, alcohol, moving your body, and asking for help.

Separation Is a Crisis You Go Through

Separation is a crisis for most people. Child psychologist Malin Bergström explains the warning signs, common reactions, and why being left hurts most.

Benefits of Every-Other-Week Living for Children

Is living every other week good for children? The upsides kids themselves mention: more time with both parents, more adults around, and a calmer home.

How Do Children Feel When Parents Stop Communicating?

Silence between parents is a conflict too. How permafrost between co-parents lands on the child, and what you can do to get communication going again.

The Child Comes First

How do you put your child first when your own life is in crisis? Child psychologist Malin Bergström on acknowledgment, hope, and staying a parenting team.

Checking Your Child’s Insurance After Separation in Sweden

Sweden

When your child lives in two homes, it helps to know which insurance covers what. In Sweden, home insurance, school accident cover and private child insurance do different jobs.

Sharing Household Costs in a Blended Family

Moving in with a new partner brings together different incomes, children’s needs and existing commitments. A useful budget makes those commitments visible and explains which costs you are choosing to share. It does not need to make every contribution identical.

Saving for Your Child After Separation in Sweden

Sweden

Before adding to your child’s savings, check whose money it is and who can manage it. In Sweden, an account belonging to the child works differently from money saved in a parent’s name.

Keeping Track of Your Child’s Costs in Two Homes

You do not need to discuss every purchase. You do need a clear picture of regular payments, agreed extra costs and what each household can afford. A small, predictable system can make money conversations easier after separation.

If You Lose Income After Separation in Sweden

Sweden

Job loss or illness can put extra pressure on a one-parent budget. In Sweden, unemployment benefit, sick pay and private insurance have different rules. Start by checking which kind of support fits the change.

Going to Court About Your Child in Sweden

Sweden

If you cannot agree about custody, where your child lives or contact, the district court can decide. Here is how the Swedish process usually works, one stage at a time.

Dividing the Home and Property After Separation in Sweden

Sweden

Bodelning is the Swedish process for dividing certain property after a relationship ends. The starting point is whether you were married or living together as sambor.

Planning Contact with Your Child in Sweden

Sweden

If a child does not live with one parent, contact can mean visits, overnight stays or calls. In Sweden, the arrangement should fit the child’s needs and be safe for them.

Who Makes Decisions About Your Child in Sweden?

Sweden

Choosing a school, arranging healthcare and planning your child’s home can raise different questions after separation. In Sweden, legal custody explains who is responsible for important decisions.

How to Support Your Child During Parental Conflict

It's hard for children when their parents argue. Even when conflict can't be avoided, you can help your child feel safe and make sense of what's happening — child psychologist Malin Bergström explains how.

How Does Severe Parental Conflict Affect Children?

All children are affected when their parents are in conflict, silent moods included. A child psychologist on the signs and how to protect your children.

How to Handle Your Child's Activities and Big Events

Can both parents come to the school play? How to take turns at your child's activities, graduations and holidays after separation — without the tension.

Living Arrangements: How Much Should the Child Decide?

Children have the right to know what's happening in their lives and to say what they think about decisions that affect them. But it's the parents' job to make wise decisions that fit the child — with the child's wishes carrying more weight as they grow.

Shared Parenting for Babies and Toddlers

Can a baby live in two homes? Child psychologist Malin Bergström on overnight stays, attachment to both parents and building up time with each of you.

Two Homes: What Research Can and Cannot Tell Parents

Research often finds that children sharing time between homes do as well as, or better than, children living mainly in one home. But that does not prove that a particular timetable causes better well-being. Here is what published studies can tell parents—and what they cannot.

Children's Belongings in Two Homes

Clothes, football boots, and toys that travel between two homes. Get a checklist of routines and packing habits so your child's things stop going missing.

The Value of Shared Routines in Two Homes

Shared routines make life in two homes calmer for a child. Advice on bedtimes, food, screen time, gifts and holidays when you and your co-parent live apart.

How Does a Swedish Court Decide What Is Best for a Child?

Sweden

A parenting decision should work for the child’s real life. In Sweden, the court looks at safety, care, important relationships and the child’s views when deciding custody, residence or contact.

Making a Parenting Agreement in Sweden

Sweden

A clear plan can make handovers and everyday decisions easier. In Sweden, a practical parenting plan and an officially approved agreement have different purposes.

How to Support Your Child Through a Separation

Child psychologist Malin Bergström shares simple ways to support your child through a separation: closeness, cozy moments, laughter and steady routines.

Are You Being Targeted by Your Co-parent?

It's hard to be a good parent when your relationship with your co-parent is strained — that's one of the reasons we built the Co-parenting app. Here's how to think about a tough situation, and what you can do to calm things down.

Siblings and Sibling Rivalry After a Separation

Sibling quarrels often change after a separation. Why children fight more, why some suddenly stop, and what you can do at home to calm things down.

Co-Parenting Agreements Make Life Easier

When everyday life changes, planning and clear agreements make everything easier. Priorities vary from family to family, but communication, living arrangements, and logistics are all worth agreeing on — here's how to approach each part before you move on to "Creating Sustainable Agreements".

How to Build Trust With Your Child

Your child needs to know they can come to you with anything. How to build trust, listen without defending yourself, and talk about their other parent.

How to Help Your Child Build Resilience

How to strengthen your child's resilience: what it is, and how trust, support and age-appropriate involvement help children cope with big changes.

Parallel Parenting: When Conflicts Run Too Deep

Parallel parenting means each parent runs their own home and contact stays minimal. Learn how to limit communication and shield your child from conflict.

Do You Need to Step Up or Let Go of Control?

After a separation, one parent — often the mother — carries most of the practical responsibility for the children, while the other feels their way of caring isn't fully trusted. Rebalancing that takes real effort: one of you may need to step up, and the other to let go.

A New Kind of Parenting - Ideally as a Team

You don't have to parent the same way to parent well together. What helps your child most is mutual respect, a healthy distance, and a few shared ground rules — so everyone knows roughly what applies in both homes.

How to Build a Co-parenting Team

Build a co-parenting team after separation: why your different strengths help your child, and how neutral, correct and friendly contact keeps the peace.

Why Parental Cooperation Is Important

Parental cooperation after a separation gives the child security. How to become a parenting team with your co-parent, and what your child gains from it.

I Feel Safe Having a Big Family in Two Homes

What is it really like to grow up in two homes? Matilda, 18, on her blended family, missing a parent, step-siblings and what made her feel safe.