Divorce and Co-Parenting

A Support Guide for the Modern Family

Elissa P. Benedek, Samantha A. Huettner
APAP
256 pages
ISBN-13: 978-1615372201
September 2019

This volume, a revised edition of How to Help Your Children Overcome Your Divorce -- originally published in the 1990s -- is updated to reflect significant changes in family dynamics, technology and social media, and the matrimonial legal landscape over the past 30 years.

This guide offers new methods of alternative dispute resolution, including mediation, arbitration, collaborative law, and parenting coordinators, as it addresses a wide variety of family situations, such as the following:

• Uninvolved or absent noncustodial parents

• Parents with mental illness

• Incarcerated parents

• LGBTQ parents or children

• Sexually or physically abused children