How To Help Your Child Cope With Your Family Separation

How can I help my child cope with our family separation?

The first thing that I think is really important for children that are going through a family separation, I call them children of divorce because they're going through it - it's like they're divorcing as well and it's a big thing for them, is get them around other children that are single parent children. My son, when I did the single parent support groups, and he'd run into someone he knows, he'd invite them to the group and the child would go "but we're not divorced", and Sam would go "that's too bad". So it kind of turns it around so that if your child is with other children that maybe go from house to house, or live with their mother, then they feel like there's really nothing wrong with it, and they get used to it, and they have friends that they can play with. That they can talk to.