Shared Parenting: Beyond the Great Divide: The Twenty Essential Co-parenting Tasks for Raising Children in Two Homes

It is a challenge for parents to raise children in one home even when everyone is getting along. After a divorce—when all the mediators, attorneys, evaluators, and judges have moved on to other families—parents are left with the most difficult task of all: moving past their own conflicts and learning to raise their child in two homes.

Divorced parents often begin with the best of intentions, seeking to protect their children from hurt; even so, they often feel overwhelmed with the seemingly...