Dad seeking advice?

[daddyby]

I have a 20 month old son with my exp. They live in Scotland and I live in england with my new partner and her children and we have a daughter together also. I currently go to see my son once a month but unsure what to do because of the lockdown?. Should I still be making the trip?

Any ideas anyone?

Yes you should

So you haven't seen your son for at least 5 weeks then I take it?

Children are allowed to travel between homes to maintain contact with both parents. However parents can use there parental responsibility to withhold contact if it presents an unreasonable risk (eg. If shielding). Assuming everyone in both houses are healthy, there's no reason why you can't have contact.

Probably a more important question is why do you only see your child once a month? And why has it's taken until 5 weeks into lockdown for you to think about visiting?

Unless there are health reasons, of course you should see your child.

Yes you should be

Ok. I wasn't sure if I could travel such a long way.

I'm not sure I'd go but I would make sure I was using the myriad other options available to keep in touch with him.

Hi! If you had been seeing your child regularly from the beginning of lockdown then yes of course you should carry on but as you haven't now I think the risks health wise are a lot greater. Does your ex want you to make the visits up or would she prefer you not to? I would take this into consideration before making any decision. It's such a horribly scary time and I'm sure you're missing your child.

Why haven’t you already found out? Do you really think mothers would be saying

‘I’ve not seen my baby for five weeks shall I go?’

You must have seen on the tv that parents can still have access?

Wild horses wouldn’t stop my kids dad from seeing them.

You need to pull your socks up mate

Where do you stay when you visit ?
If you take dc out for the day very difficult.

Have you discussed how contact could work with mum

I would definitely travel to see your child. This is a difficult time for all and it looks like we could be like this a good while.