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Talking Parents

Overview

Talking Parents has a rating of 1.89 stars from 70 reviews, indicating that most customers are generally dissatisfied with their purchases. Reviewers complaining about Talking Parents most frequently mention customer service, and court order problems. Talking Parents ranks 176th among Legal Services sites.

  • Service
    13
  • Value
    16
  • Shipping
    4
  • Returns
    4
  • Quality
    14

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Positive reviews (last 12 months): 10%
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Positive highlights

  • I insisted that the court order using Talking Parents, and after two years the judge finally agreed.

Critical highlights

  • I would actually rate a ZERO because it IS NOT A CO-PARENTING APP.
How would you rate Talking Parents?
Top Positive Review

“Had an unreasonable co-parent”

Michael E.
1/7/23

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

Top Critical Review

“Don't Do It!”

Crystal C.
12/14/23

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.

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Thumbnail of user michaele2065
1 review
1 helpful vote
January 7th, 2023

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

Tip for consumers:
Funnel all communication in one place to minimize headaches

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Application on Phone and Internet

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Thumbnail of user chantales7
1 review
1 helpful vote
June 26th, 2023

This is a necessity in high conflict cases. The format is very readable. Also nice to have in parenting situations with a lot of records such as special medical needs.

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I am an attorney using this tool on over 1000 cases.

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My clients use the free service usually.

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Thumbnail of user stephaniec963
1 review
3 helpful votes
August 14th, 2020

19 months and I have not had to hear his voice or see his name / number on my phone. I am so grateful for this app.

All texts are printable with a small fee. I email them directly to the attorney.

Every critical or other harassing text is documented. Every disregard or sarcasm for the children's needs
- documented. This is useful for the custody case when we get on calendar.

Additionally, this app has helped me put space between myself and a mean backhanded person.

Thank you Talking Parents for helping me restore peace to my world.

Thumbnail of user melissam984
1 review
0 helpful votes
April 5th, 2020

I'm using this app father never replies I need help in my battle I signed a stipulation saying g I need to pay for monitored visits with only 3 monitors to choose from and two are not in the list the other said she isn't working this year. I need help going back to court with a FTA.

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1 review
16 helpful votes
June 6th, 2020

Ok- I'm amused by the negative reviews. People, the majority of your "issues" of gaslighting, communication etc are due to YOU and your EX. It doesn't matter if it's text, email, phone or an app. Stop complaining and blaming the app! If it is that bad, use a third party to communicate between the two of you (ie parallel parenting). There are some issues with application- for example, the calls- it's extremely expensive. It should be a lower cost. It's pretty costly but you can use the free website from your phone. It's easy! No app can magically make your co parent respond and work with you... there is no such thing as magic. Don't indulge in a narcissistic parents behavior. Don't allow it. Tell them to stop and refuse to communicate until they calm down (keep things brief). This website does its job. It keeps records accurately and that's the point. It's not the websites job to figure out how to coparent for you. We've had this since 2016.

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1 review
8 helpful votes
April 20th, 2019

I don't think co-parenting would've worked out if we had to communicate any other way. I have no complaints whatsoever. I've been using the web version. (Free) for three years now

Thumbnail of user katherinec106
1 review
8 helpful votes
August 7th, 2018

This is an amazing app/website used in the uk. I've used it to correspond with an abusive ex and so far it had delivered and has been great. I printed off the correspondence for the court at a nominal fee of about £3. I would recommend this esp those who are dealing with controllers, manipulators and narcissists. Everything is logged if you've gone no contact with everything else. Excellent work and more advertising!

Thumbnail of user kenb127
1 review
5 helpful votes
July 27th, 2017

I'm really surprised by all of these bad reviews. I've been using TalkingParents.com for 20 months and it has been great. The notification that my EX has read the discussion is invaluable since she frequently does not respond or waits a long time to do so.

Completely free up until now. I've printed out individual discussions as needed to show my lawyer. Yeah, it will cost $4 to get a complete PDF if I ever need it. My lawyer will charge me way more than $4 to even look at it, so I see $4 as small change.

With respect to reliability, I use the web interface. I cannot comment on the web app. I don't really see the point of the web app. I get an email saying there is a message, I click on it and it takes me to the web page. That works perfectly for me.

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Kristin K. – Talking Parents Rep

Thank you for your great review, Ken! We're so glad that Talking Parents has been of such benefit to you. We appreciate you using our service and hope that we can continue to serve your co-parenting needs.

Thumbnail of user matthewh120
1 review
5 helpful votes
November 2nd, 2017

Awesome online, 5++ have not used the app. 4 years using it, used it in court as well, without paying.
Pretty sure the lying reviews are competetors.

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Kristin K. – Talking Parents Rep

Thank you for your review, Matthew! We're thrilled that you enjoy our service so much. We hope to continue to serve your needs in the future.

Thumbnail of user lauriem2
1 review
9 helpful votes
March 20th, 2011

My ex and I never talked at all because we don't like to talk to each other but we ended up using this site so we could at least talk about our son which has worked out great since he knows he can't be a jerk and he can't just ignore me

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Kristin K. – Talking Parents Rep

Hi Laurie, we're glad that Talking Parents has helped to remedy your communication issues with your ex. We're glad that it has been of such benefit. We hope to continue to serve you at Talking Parents.

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