ausmil wrote: ↑Mon Dec 02, 2024 8:56 pm
This app excludes the thousands of parents that are in divorced homes. My children’s records are in both words, but the circles app only works in the wards. The parents records are in so thousands of parents will get cut off from encouraging their children to go to activities does anyone know a solution to this?
I don't know if for the parent who is not in the child's home ward, creating an "out-of-unit membership record" would work. That seems like the only potential workaround that pops into my mind, although there's possibly other issues with the child only appearing in one household and I don't know if that impacts anything (other Forum members may have experience trying something like this)
At a higher-level, if I was a youth leader and had a youth in that situation, I would be very open to making sure both parents were fully aware of all announcements and communications. Even if it required consistent additional effort on my part, as a youth leader I'd be truly interested in making sure the youth and their parents felt fully included in our efforts. So I would hope that if a divorced parent had a one-on-one conversation with the youth's Bishop and/or other youth leaders, they would do their best to try and keep the out-of-ward parent in the communication loops, and ensure info available in Circles was duplicated to the other parent.
It's a real issue for many youth and parents. Circles definitely has specific limitations, but I think most divorced parents face similar issues with whatever communication method is in place in a local ward.