Parenting Coordination in Postseparation Disputes
A Comprehensive Guide for Practitioners
Description:... "In the past 30 years, there has been increasing evidence of the detrimental effects of parental conflict on children from divorced families (e.g., Kelly, 2000) as well as the potential benefits of increased involvement of the father (e.g., Lamb, 1981). This evidence has moved courts and other advocates away from adversarial models in making custody decisions and toward joint custody and more collaborative models (Katz, 1994). With these changes, families have often benefited from court-sponsored parent education that focuses on the needs of children and the impact of conflict as well as mediation both before and after divorce. For some families, however, the custody decisions continued to be litigated after the divorce and when education and mediation did not prove effective.
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