What Parental Cooperation Does Not Mean:
Once again, when parents cooperate during or after a divorce, it creates an environment where children feel safe, satisfied, and loved.
Cooperation does not mean:
- pumping your children for information about the other parent
- controlling or trying to control the other parent (as this is usually done by using the child)
- using the children as messengers to carry angry messages back and forth
- hurting the other parent by use of the children
- having the children deliver or ask for child-support payments
- arguing or fighting in front of the children
- using derogatory comments about the other parent in front of the children
- asking the children with whom they wish to live
- placing the children in a position of having to take sides with either parent
Source: Bienefeld, F., Williams, F. Helping Your Child Through Your Divorce. (1995). Hunter House, Inc., Alameda, CA
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