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Editor's note
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Divorce is on the rise in Australia, which means more people having to navigate co-parenting with someone they’re no longer in a relationship with. This comes with all sorts of considerations – from practical decisions such as who will drive the kids to netball practice to more serious questions about how they should be raised.
Over the past few weeks we’ve been running a series on parenting after divorce, outlining how you should make decisions together, the type of relationship you should have with your co-parent, and how to tell your kids you’re getting divorced.
Family separation is a time of great upheaval for children, and while studies show children of divorce fare a little bit worse on measures such as behaviour and education, that’s no reason to stay in an unhappy marriage. The negative effects actually come from witnessing conflict, not from the divorce itself.
So long as you put your kids first in all your decision making and save your blues with your ex for behind closed doors, they’re going to be fine.
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Alexandra Hansen
Health + Medicine Section Editor/Chief of Staff
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Some level of communication between ex-partners is needed when parenting together.
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Priscilla Dunk-West, Flinders University
A new study has examined the practices of good parents post-separation. Here's the parents' advice.
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Conflict, and not the separation itself, is a greater predictor of how children will fare post-divorce.
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Kim Halford, The University of Queensland
Most parents worry how their child will fare after divorce. Most will be fine, so long as they don't witness conflict.
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What you tell your children about your impending divorce should depend on their age.
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Rachael Sharman, University of the Sunshine Coast
Telling your children you and your partner aren't going to be together anymore is a significant change in their lives.
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The relationship might be over but the parenting isn’t.
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Kristin Natalier, Flinders University
Here are some ways you can successfully co-parent after a divorce. You don't have to be best friends, you just have to think of the kids.
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