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Co-Parenting

If a divorce is a difficult experience for a married couple, then it is a traumatic experience for any children who may be involved. Children need a happy, harmonious environment in order to become healthy adults, and divorces do not provide such an environment, since they involve the break-up of a family. Fortunately, parents can mitigate the effect a divorce has on children through the practice of co-parenting.

What is Co-Parenting?

Co-parenting (also known as shared parenting) is when both parents work together to raise children after a divorce. In doing so, they both share parenting responsibilities. In co-parenting arrangements, the children spend time living with each parent. That way, children can benefit from the experience, guidance, and care of both parents.

Why is Co-Parenting Important?

Co-parenting is important because it allows both parents to provide the care to their children that one parent cannot provide on his or her own. Rearing children is difficult, and two parents are more effective than one. In addition, co-parenting generally allows children to get the unique care of both a father and a mother. Finally, co-parenting allows children to have a relatively normal family life. Although the parents no longer live with one another, the children still get to live with both parents.

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Deciding to file for divorce is not an easy choice. If you have decided that divorce may be right for you, contact the Boca Raton divorce lawyers of Eric N. Klein & Associates, P.A. by calling 561-353-2800.