About this service
What Family Compass does
When your family situation changes, it sets out where things stand and brings together what to consider next, the support you may be able to use, who to talk to, and the outlook for daily life.
It is not only for single parents after divorce. It covers the whole arc of change in family relationships, from first having concerns about a marriage through to life after divorce.
What Family Compass does not do
It does not judge whether you should divorce. It steers you neither towards reconciliation nor towards divorce.
It does not make legal judgements. Where a legal question arises, it connects you to a professional.
It does not settle whether you qualify for a programme or how much you would receive. What it shows is the possibility of qualifying; the final check is done at the relevant office.
It does not make the final judgement about your safety. Where an answer touches on safety, specialist helplines are put first.
How AI is used
Working out where you stand, whether you may qualify for a programme, the amounts, which actions to suggest, and the timeline is all done by a rule engine. Generative AI plays no part in it.
Generative AI is used only to reword what the rule engine produced into clearer prose. If the AI does not respond, the core of the service still works.
Only the results of the assessment and extracts of published programme information are sent to the AI. Names, email addresses, addresses, children's names, and free text about safety are never sent.
About the data
Every programme is shown with its source, the date it was checked, and the period it applies to.
Sources are official national and local government information, Tokyo Metropolitan open data, the childcare support programme registry, and information published on official municipal websites. Blogs and SEO articles are never used as grounds for a decision.
Fetching updated programme data does not publish it. Only what a person has checked is published.
Programme text is written in Japanese. Anything shown in another language is a reference translation, and programme names, facility names, and helpline details are left in Japanese.