Tag: Parenting

  • How To Build A Positive Co-Parenting Relationship After Divorce (Part 2)

    In the first installment in this series, we looked at one of the most important items on our list: addressing how to build a positive co-parenting relationship after a divorce, namely not undermining your ex in front of your kids. Moving on, we are going to look at the next item on the agenda –…

  • How To Build A Positive Co-Parenting Relationship After Divorce (Part 1)

    Divorce is hard. Everyone knows that, whether they’ve gone through the process themselves or not. Few things are more difficult than co parenting a child in the wake of a divorce. Two different households often means two sets of rules, two ways of doing things, two very dissimilar lives that don’t meet in the middle.…

  • Parental Rights vs. Service To Your Country: Custody Concerns For Deployed Parents

    With the multitude of stories circulated in the media in recent years regarding the custody struggles faced by deployed military parents, it is no wonder that individuals serving in the armed services are desperate for change.   In 2012 the Uniform Law Commission drafted the Uniform Deployed Parents Custody and Visitation Act, which serves to…

  • The Children’s Bill of Rights: Points About Parenting During Divorce To Consider

    The term “Children’s Bill of Rights” might make you think of an introduction to American Government class in middle school, or even the “Constitution for Kids” page on historyforkids.net. In fact, the Kid’s Bill of Rights is something very different, but equally important.   The children caught up in divorces have no control over the…

  • Toxic Parenting – Breaking The Cycle! (Part 4)

    This is the fourth and final article in this mini series on breaking free from the chains of a toxic childhood and becoming a better parent. In the first three segments we covered a wide range of “toxic messages” that parents can send during divorce and custody battles, and their corresponding “healthy truths.” In this…

  • Toxic Parenting – Breaking The Cycle! (Part 3)

    Having been raised by a toxic parent who alienated you from your other parent after a divorce, it can be a challenge to parent your own children.  The reason for this, in part, is because no good example of parenting was set for you, but also because a child raised in a toxic environment tends…

  • Toxic Parenting – Breaking The Cycle! (Part 2)

    In this series, we are looking at the damaging effects of parental alienation after divorce, which also known as toxic parenting, and talked about the ways that you can overcome the damaging messages of a toxic childhood.   In the previous article, we talked about the importance of breaking away from the toxic messages of…

  • Toxic Parenting – Breaking The Cycle! (Part 1)

    There are many scholarly articles out there on the impact that toxic parenting has on the relationship between the slandered parent and their children in the wake of a divorce or custody battle. But little is said about the long-term impact on those children after they have grown up and become parents themselves. Or on…

  • What Rights Do Fathers Have? (Part Two)

    In the first installment of this two-part series, we talked about the importance of fathers in their children’s lives, and took a look at the first two items on our ‘father’s rights’ list, namely child support and visitation. Moving forward, we are going to wrap this up with the last two issues – the establishing paternity,…

  • What Rights Do Fathers Have? (Part One)

    Unmarried fathers are often thought of as having the least amount of influence in the lives of their children. This is predominantly because, historically, it was the mother who was awarded custody when the couple parted ways. And it was the mother who was viewed as invaluable to the raising of the child. Thankfully, we…