Co-parenting works!: helping your children thrive after divorce

Foreword / Steve Giissom

Introduction: Finding Your Heart in Love and War

1. Getting Started in Co-Parenting

Part 1. Becoming a Stable and Effective Co-Parent

2. How on Earth Did It Come to This?

3. You Are Not Alone-Even If It Sometimes Feels Like It

4. Finding Your Stability

Part 2. It's Not about you-It's about the Kids

5. Kids in a Post-Divorce World

6. Parenting Forward

7. Your Children Love You Both and That's a Good Thing

Part 3. Creating a Co-Parenting Team

8. Five Categories of Co-Parenting

9. Take the Initiative: How to Begin Forming a Cooperative Colleague Partnership

10. Teamm Meetings

11. Creating Consistent Standards for Discipline

12. Including the Stepparent

Part 4. If It Can Go Wrong

13. When Your Co-Parent Won't Cooperate

14. When the Wheels Come Off

15. Filtering Out Negative Voices

Part 5. When Co-Parenting Is Impossible

16. Abandonment-Can You Co-Parent Alone?

17. When Your Ex is Unsafe

Part 6. Moving on with Your Life

18. Dating Again

19. Remarriage

Part 7. And Into the Future

20. Co-Parenting for Life-Even After Child Support Ends

21. What Will Your Kids Remember?

Conclusion: Be Brave!

Acknowledgments

Appendix: Resources

Notes