Health when parents live apart

When children live in an alternate living arrangement or have parents in separate homes, it impacts both their and the adults' health and well-being in various ways. Here, you can explore the strengths and challenges this lifestyle brings.

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Check In With Yourself During a Separation

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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.

Benefits of Every-Other-Week Living for Children

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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.

The Child Comes First

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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.

How to Support Your Child Through a Separation

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

I Feel Safe Having a Big Family in Two Homes

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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.