Parental relationships
Support to reduce parental conflict and advice for single parents.
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Healthy and stable family relationships play a key role in a child's development. They allow children to thrive and achieve the best outcomes in life.
It is important that parental interactions are respectful and positive, even if you are no longer a couple.
Information, advice and guidance is available for parents who want to know more on how to manage conflict in a healthy way.
If you are a couple who is going through a difficult time but would like to try and stay together, there are lots of advice and guidance available on parental relationships that can support you.
Visit our parenting support and support for dads pages for more information.
Available services in Cumbria
See it Differently
When arguing with your partner or ex-partner, it's easy to get caught up in the heat of the moment and pay little attention to how you speak to each other.
See it Differently helps partners see things differently and do things differently.
Visit the See it Differently website to find out more and watch their video series.
Anna Freud – National Centre for Children and Families
Parents and carers can occasionally argue but too much conflict can be unhealthy.
The clinical team at the Anna Freud Centre has created support for families where there are concerns about the impact of parental conflict on children.
See what help you can access on the Anna Freud website.
Research on the impact of parental conflict on children
The National Centre for Family Hubs has a lot of research evidence on parental conflict. When this is frequent and intense, it is harmful to children’s mental health and long term outcomes.
See all reducing parental conflict resources on the National Centre for Family Hubs website.
Relationship support
Support for families going through divorce and separation
- managing a separation (Gingerbread)
- OnlyMums – support for mums
- OnlyDads – support for dads
- parenting through separation (Resolution)
Co-parenting advice for separated families
Help with costs related to resolving family law disputes
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As a single parent, you may feel overwhelmed by the responsibilities of juggling caring for the children, maintaining a job, and keeping up with the bills and household chores.
We all have bad days and we all feel like we are failing, and it can be even harder without that other person to bounce things off or take up some of the slack.
Remember to be kind to yourself – you are doing a great job!
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Useful websites
There are lots of websites that offer help, information and advice.
The Single Parents website is run by the Single Parent Action Network. It is a site with information for anyone who is raising children on their own, whether through a relationship breakup, illness, bereavement, work commitments or choice.
NHS Advice for single parents.
Care for the Family website has information for single parents including taking a break holiday, a parenting blog and a community you can join for peer-to-peer support.
Gingerbread is a support site for single parents. It has a range of free services including a forum where you can meet other single mums and dads, get expert advice and information pages to help guide you around various topics.
Raising Children parenting website covers topics such as advice on the early days after separation and some guidance on steps to take to help your family find its new direction.