Parenting together after divorce: Positive strategies for navigating new terrain.

Divorce is a time of tremendous change for every person in a family. Parents often repartner (with or without marriage), generating an additional period of transformation as the family is reconstituted. Are these transitions equivalent in their impact on child adjustment? The media are flooded with accounts of the negative aspects of divorce and positive features of two-parent families. We hear little, however, about what happens when subsequent marriages fall apart. As sobering as the statistics are for first marriages (roughly one-half end in divorce), the marriages that follow are even more subject to dissolution. How can we help families struggling though these metamorphoses? This article reviews some recent findings from intervention programs designed to help families experiencing divorce and remarriage, and discusses results suggesting that parenting quality is the most influential factor related to successful child adaptation.

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