Talking Parents

I pay $27 a month and so does my ex, for the premium plan. I have been waiting 6 days for my child support payment through this app. It's an absolute joke. There is no consistency for the accountable payments. One time it took 2 days, the next time 3. This time I am just waiting and waiting. Who can afford to wait 6 days from the date they were owed monies. It's the kids who suffer from this shady company. Where is my money? It's no longer in his account and it's not in mine so where is it then?

Talking Parents recently increased the monthly fee and yet the service is worse.

90% of the time I'm unable to open up a message, resulting in having to wait 1/2 day to it to work

Anytime I log on, I have to sit thru 8 talking parents advertising commercials to even access the account.

It's awful.

Everyone who is a non custodial parent need to beware that during any slightest conflict between attorney and client, Talking Parents staff indulges alienation towards their customers. They also release your private information to their parties without notifying you.

As like many reviews that I have read this app is complete nonsense and truly does give narcissistic, sadistic, unwilling to actually co parent, parents feel as though if they send tons of irrelevant messages that the other parent will look bad. I do not open many messages from my sons dad because the title alone gives me anxiety. The courts don't care how badly you've been abused. All the courts want is for the situation to be out of their hands and to place a band aid on the case.

This app allows power hungry parents to continue to feed their sick brains. Sad. I would not recommend!

Absolutely horrible. I think they fully take advantage of a family's difficult situation to make money off you. I was using this app for my very volatile situation with my ex-husband, I had over a years worth of correspondence between us and then they pulled my account from me until I upgraded!
I obviously was forced to upgrade in order to get back all the evidence of the verbal abuse I put up with co-parenting with my ex.
Absolutely disgusting tactic to make money off of people in abusive terrible situations.
Don't sign up for it….there has to be better ways than this.

This saved a lot of endless emails and text and monitored the behavior of the other parent by the court. This helped save a lot of name calling and other unhealthy behavior. It did not stop it, but it did help. Best 9.99 a month I have spent in a long time

The ex merely uses this app to send me requests for money. She makes ALL of the decisions without my informed consent then merely sends me requests for money. I've been as cordial as anyone could possibly be in my asking her to actually CO-PARENT together. But no, she just needs it on record that she's sent the "invoice", so to speak. These sorts of apps don't actually help. It's another indicator of the times. How does this app which gives parents the freedom to be irresponsible with the rights of the child's "non-custodial"'parent help the child? It seems to only work to keep their parents firmly in their childish lack of accountability which led to the poor behaviors of one or both of the parents to begin with. I don't hate the app, but I hate the reason for it. It isn't right.

First they stole 90mins I had left and I misses the only 5min call I'm allowed every wensday which is very important to my 4 year old emotional health! And them after finally able to afford the premium service again none of the video calling is working! Don't waste you money on this app it's a tool to hurt parents relationships with there children not help! ScAM!...

This app is the same thing as texting from your phone It just they put another name on text message as all it is. All you have to do the only difference between this app and you texting from your phone straight text message is that you have to remember not to erase your text messages wow. This this app is for people who cannot remember to not get rid of stuff. And it's court ordered because I guess we're all dumbasses.

I ordered the premium plan for the cost of $20 try to download various things that download it 7 to 8 times each. Spent well over $200 trying on transcription and copies of records and the transcriptions are so poorly crafted they have the wrong name half the time for who is saying what and every sentence has 2 to 3 errors making it almost Unintelligible. At that price I should be able to have a human transcription other than a or what appears to be a very poorly auto texted transcription. Unfortunately will be unusable in court as it appears to be just a bunch of garbled and missed typed words very disappointed would never recommend

My ex-wife constantly ignored court ordered cooperation with me on our children's issues, and manipulated my custody time simply by ignoring messages, etc. I insisted that the court order using Talking Parents, and after two years the judge finally agreed. It has been great. My Ex and I actually have important conversations about our children because we have to. The tracking of responses and views is important, because now she can no longer say that she "never received" my messages about our children (which was her code for "deleted without reading it"). She also knows that her behavior is officially being documented, so her communication is far more reasonable and civil. Use of T. P. has improved my family situation and helped to protect my time to maintain relationships with my children a great deal.

From their site, you can't records without paying for them, which I didn't see before:
"Parents can obtain a certified and complete record of communications in PDF format anytime for $3.99. They can also upgrade to a Premium account which includes unlimited access to PDF records and many other features for $4.99 per month. Parents can email electronic copies of their record directly from our site.

Parents can also order a printed, securely-bound, and personally-certified record from us for $19 plus 19 cents per page. That price includes shipping via priority mail."

My wife and I are 3 days into using this app, and being the narcissistic gaslighter that she is, she has only included words that clearly reflect that she cares nothing about our young daughter. Her goal is, and always has been, to use my poor baby to hurt me. Let me add, she has a recent DUI (her second) with a suspended license. Where is the Justice for dads who truly care about their children? Coparent, in my case, is a word that is 100% useless when one parent thinks that everything should be done their way and only their way. While I thought that this site would have rules and be monitored if someone is NOT in any way interested in coparenting, to me this app is useless too. PARENTS***** if your "Coparent" treats you badly, they are going to do the same to your children as they get older! ITs A GIVEN!

Talking Parents is a very frustrating company to deal with. I have had great difficulty connecting with the other parent. I emailed them more than 5 times and asked to speak to someone about my issued and I asked to be walked through the set up to which I received only email responses. Then I asked if they could delete my information so I can sign up anew to which they again sent a generalized email response. I am still not connected or able to sign in and I am still waiting for help from them! It's terrible and shameful that I cannot receive technical help from them after 3 weeks of asking. I wish they had a competitor, it would be easier to get my court order changed to a different parent communication APP.