Category: Parenting After Divorce
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Ways Your ex Can Alienate You From Your Kids’ Lives After a Divorce (Pt 2)
Hi there, and welcome back. We’ve been discussing the issue of parental alienation, and how your ex can manipulate your kids into changing their minds about how they feel for you. It sounds inconceivable, but it happens more often than you’d believe, and the results are truly tragic. In the previous article we discussed the…
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Ways Your ex Can Alienate You From Your Kids’ Lives After a Divorce (Pt 1)
If you follow our blog, then you’re already familiar with the reality of toxic parenting, and parental alienation syndrome (sometimes also called “malicious mother syndrome” or “malicious parent syndrome”) In essence, it’s when a child feels and expresses a very strong dislike (which can even manifest as hatred) for one of their parents, as a…
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Are You in Danger of Having Your Parental Rights Terminated in Michigan (Part 1)
As attorneys who do a lot of family law, and a lot of CPS defense, we work with many parents who are at risk of having their parental rights terminated. Sometimes it’s a child abuse case that starts as a CPS investigation and grows to include the cops and criminal charges. Sometimes it’s a high…
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Toxic Co-Parenting: Heartbreaking Facts You Need To Know (Pt 4)
Thanks for joining us again for the wrap up of this discussion on co-parenting with a toxic ex If you’re just finding this series now we recommend you take a couple of minutes and get caught up so you don’t miss any of our important tips and pointers… And now that you’re back, we can…
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Toxic Co-Parenting: Heartbreaking Facts You Need To Know (Pt 3)
Welcome back. We’ve been talking about the issue of toxic parenting, and how very hard it is to co-parent with a toxic ex. And if you’re curious, a toxic person usually refers to a person with narcissistic tendencies, but can also mean an ex who is just so manipulative, poisonous and conflict driven that they…
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How Social Media Affects The Way We Parent Our Kids (Pt 3)
Welcome back and thanks for joining us again for this discussion about how social media affects our parenting choices. If you’re only finding this series now, we recommend that you spend a few minutes getting caught up here, and then we’ll pick up where we left off last time on the issue of spanking, with…
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How Social Media Affects The Way We Parent Our Kids (Pt 2)
Thanks for joining us again. We’ve been looking at how social media impacts the choices people make, and in this case we’re looking specifically at parenting. As we mentioned in the previous article, social media can impact the health and medical choices parents make for their kids, for example: vaccines and whether or not to…
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What Happens When Divorced Parents Don’t Agree on Vaccinations? (Pt 1)
Unless you live under a rock, you’ve probably seen some of the vaxxers versus anti-vaxxers debate online. Although debate is probably too mild a word. It’s a full blown war, with people hurling verbal bombs at one another on Facebook like they’re getting paid for it. So you can probably imagine just how hostile it…
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Why Establishing Paternity is Important For a Child in Michigan (Pt 2)
Welcome back and thanks for joining us again for this discussion about paternity in Michigan. Unlike other articles we’ve done in the past on the subject of paternity, this one doesn’t deal with how it gets established, or what methods are preferable to mothers in Michigan. Instead, we’ve been looking at a less talked about…
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Why Establishing Paternity is Important For a Child in Michigan (Pt 1)
Establishing paternity is done in one of three ways here in Michigan, namely an affidavit of parentage, a DNA test, or a court order. But knowing how it’s established isn’t the same thing as know WHY it should be established. There are many reasons why establishing paternity is important, and we’d like to share a…