Advantages When Parents Choose to Cooperate During/After Divorce:

There are many advantages when parents choose to work together on raising their children after divorce.

• children have fewer problems

• more personal satisfaction and less frustration for parents

• visitations goes much better

• fewer child-support issues

• reduced possibility of returning to court

• it is easier to share responsibility

• better parent-child relationships

• less conflict and more often freedom from conflict

• fewer health, emotional, school, and social problems for all involved

Source:  Bienefeld, F., Williams, F.  Helping Your Child Through Your Divorce.  (1995).  Hunter House, Inc., Alameda, CA