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How to Improve Co-Parenting Skills: 5 Essential Tips and Strategies

Learning how to improve co-parenting skills is one of the most valuable steps you can take after separation or divorce. While parenting apart comes with its own set of challenges, developing a cooperative, respectful approach can make a significant difference in your child’s emotional stability and your peace of mind.

The Center for Divorce Education offers practical strategies to help foster effective co-parenting built on mutual understanding, consistency, and shared responsibility.

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What Is Emotional Safety for Children of Divorce?

When parents separate, children lose more than a shared household. They lose the familiar rhythm of daily life that once told them, without words, that […]

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The Impact of Parental Conflict on Children: How It Affects Identity, Security, and Emotional Health

The impact of parental conflict on children reaches far beyond temporary stress or uncomfortable moments. When children are repeatedly exposed to tension, hostility, or unresolved […]

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Why Do Kids Blame Themselves for Divorce — And What Parents Can Do to Help

Your child has been quieter than usual. Maybe they’ve started apologizing for things that don’t warrant an apology, or they’ve asked, out of nowhere, if […]

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Are There Positive Effects of Divorce on Children?

Divorce is often framed as a negative childhood experience, but research and real-life stories show that there are meaningful positive effects of divorce on children […]

CDE's Children in Between is a skills based program that helps children and parents deal with the children's reactions to divorce. This is the most highly recommended online parenting class in the United States.

The program is based on research that identifies the most common and stressful loyalty conflicts experienced by children of divorce.

*Included in SAMHSA's National Registry of Evidence-Based Programs and Practices

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