Category: Separation and Divorce

Co-parenting — the ongoing collaborationbetween separated or divorced parentsin raising their shared children — isone of the most important and mostchallenging tasks that follows theend of a relationship. How well orpoorly separated parents co-parenttogether is one of the strongestpredictors of children’s long-termadjustment to family separation —more predictive than the separation itself. This article covers what…

Telling a child that their parents areseparating is one of the hardest conversationsa parent will ever have. Most parents approachit with the best intentions and very littleguidance about what actually helps — andwhat inadvertently makes things harderfor children. The research on children and divorce isextensive and specific. This article coverswhat children need to hear, when…

One of the questions parents going through a separation ask most oftenis also one of the hardest: what do I actually say to my child? Theanswer depends significantly on how old your child is — because atwo-year-old and a ten-year-old are not just different in size. Theyare genuinely different in what they can understand, what…

Co-parenting is one of those terms that gets used constantly inconversations about separation and divorce, and defined almost never.Most parents going through a separation have a general sense of whatit means — something about raising children together while livingapart — without a clear picture of what it actually requires, whatthe research says makes it work,…