When both parents appeared equally available, schools were 40% more likely to call students’ moms, rather than their dads.
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Comedic portrayals of incompetent dads can distort public understanding of fathers’ essential and real-life contributions to children’s development.
Teens fare better when both fathers and mothers play key parenting roles, including talking with them about sensitive subjects that were once considered only a mom’s role.
There is a rise in heterosexual prospective parents having a child outside a romantic relationship.
Whether LGBTQIA+, or sceptical of romantic love as the best foundation for their family, many are looking to the Internet to find co-parenting partners with whom to raise a child.
Holiday traditions involve expectations that can be especially challenging for parents post-divorce or post-separation. Proactive planning helps.
Parental alienation is a recurring problem that affects many families who are experiencing high conflict, separation and divorce.
In families that are facing economic insecurity, fathers are more likely to experience depressive symptoms that can lead to conflict.
Even those of us spared the worst of COVID-19 are missing our favorite pastimes, places and people. But pleasure can also take unexpected new forms in a pandemic.
Co-parenting in the time of COVID-19 has thrown up a whole set of new challenges, including potential disagreements over who the child spends time with and whether they should attend childcare.
The coronavirus pandemic is not like other emergencies addressed in custody arrangements. The best advice is to try to collaborate and cooperate – even if that’s difficult.
Parenting: attachment is not, and has never been, the only way.
New research into beetles shows larvae are stronger and grow better when raised by two parents working together than a single parent working alone.
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