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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 …


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 …


At last…some celebrity news that doesn’t involve crotch shots, DUIs, or failed rehab stints!

Demi Moore and Bruce Willis Win the First Annual Celebrity Co-Parent Awards

Rosalind Sedacca, CCT, founder of National Child-Centered Divorce Month in July, and Cynthia Tiano, Esq., creator of the Celebrity Co-Parent Awards, have announced that Demi Moore …


In the course of researching online for co-parenting-related resources, one idea crops up more than all the others: When it comes to divorce/custody/child support, well-meaning dads (i.e., non-deadbeats) get the shaft, all-too-often. Not only in court, but even in co-parenting/divorce-themed books and amongst legal and mental health professionals–the very resources …


From Newsweek, April 21, 2008:

“Once shocking, even shameful, divorce has morphed into a routine fact of American life.   Newsweek’s David J. Jefferson got in touch with members of his 1982 high-school class to ask: how has divorce affected you?”

“The Divorce Generation Grows Up”



by Deesha Philyaw

Along the Yough River in Pennsylvania, we are whitewater rafting—two rafts, four adults, and three children. Between the adults in the raft, we hold only a negligible amount of rafting experience. But this is the Middle Yough (pronounced “Yock,” short for Youghiogheny), and the guys …