Jonathan Rabinovitz’s personal essay in this past Sunday’s New York Times truly deserved a better title. But bad title or not, this meditation of one man’s experience with divorce and the aftermath is a good read.
Tags: Except in cases where there is a history of family violence and child abuse, Australian law mandates “presumption” of “equal shared parental responsibility” between divorced parents. The results aren’t a panacea, according to this article, “Children Suffer When Law Splits Parenting Equally.”
According to my admittedly limited research, it …
I consider the column I wrote for four years at LiteraryMama my “official” entry into the world of freelance writing. Though I no longer write for the site, I still consider myself a LiteraryMama, and I keep up with the mama-writing the site features. LM has debuted a new monthly …
Thus begins Alec Baldwin’s new book, “A Promise to Ourselves: A Journey Through Fatherhood and Divorce”, a book that details his nasty divorce and custody battle with fellow actor Kim Basinger. Baldwin goes wide however, taking a macro look at the family law system, calling it a “disgraceful mess”, …
I found some most excellent co-parenting resources today, all under the umbrella of an organization called Bonus Families:
Bonus Families®, as an organization was founded in 1999, but the ground work was laid years before. The founders, Jann Blackstone-Ford, PsyD., a divorce and stepfamily mediator, and Sharyl Jupe, had weathered …
I recently found a co-parenting article by Michael Scott (a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and a child custody mediator) over at Mediate.com. It is probably the most comprehensive and well-written piece that I’ve read on the subject to date. It’s a long, but worthwhile read, and I …
Some of the best post-separation-and-divorce advice we’ve ever gotten, solicited and unsolicited, has been from adults (friends and strangers) whose parents divorced. They tell us what their parents did right in terms of handling the fall out and continuing to meeting their kid’s needs. On the flip side, …
I recently found a co-parenting article by Michael Scott (a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and a child custody mediator) over at Mediate.com. It is probably the most comprehensive and well-written piece that I’ve read on the subject to date. It’s a long, but worthwhile read, and I …
I recently found a co-parenting article by Michael Scott (a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and a child custody mediator) over at Mediate.com. It is probably the most comprehensive and well-written piece that I’ve read on the subject to date. It’s a long, but worthwhile read, and …
I recently found a co-parenting article by Michael Scott (a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and a child custody mediator) over at Mediate.com. It is probably the most comprehensive and well-written piece that I’ve read on the subject to date. It’s a long, but worthwhile read, and I’d …
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