What is Parenting Coordination
Parenting Coordination is not therapy. Rather the process focuses on reducing conflict the parents create and the children are exposed to.
Why a Parenting Coordinator
Parents rarely move from conflictual to cooperative behavior - without first going through a step of disengagement.
When a Parenting Coordinator
Half of all divorcing couples
in moderate to high conflict will still be clashing three to four years later.
Who is a Parenting Coordinator
Not an authority in just one, a parenting coordinator possesses realistic insight, experience and knowledge in several disciplines.
Parenting Coordination
The scenario is all too familiar.Both parents are zealously convinced they are fighting for the children "best interest". But in an atmosphere of constant conflict, neither parent recognizes the children are being pulled apart.
Legal custody agreements may be negotiated by attorneys, formulated by mediators, or Ordered by a Judge. What cannot be mandated, however, is the parent's ability to carry out these arrangements in a way that minimizes their children's exposure to conflict.
Research has shown that the level and intensity of parental conflict is the most influential factor in children's post-divorce adjustment. High conflict between parents is the single greatest predictor of a child's poor outcome.
- Yet it is the one factor that the parents can most control.