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Intro -- Title Page -- Dedication -- Introduction -- Part One: Getting Started -- Chapter 1: What Is Nesting? -- Nesting, Explained -- What Does Nesting Look Like in Real Life? -- The Goals of Nesting -- The Benefits of Nesting -- Key Points to Remember -- Chapter 2: Is Nesting Right for Your Family? -- Assessing Your Ability to Co-Parent Questionnaire -- Issues to Consider Before Nesting -- Your Home Away from Home: Potential Living Arrangements -- Financial Factors -- Dating and New Relationships -- How Long Should Nesting Last? -- Nesting Deal Breakers -- Making a Decision -- Key Points to Remember -- Chapter 3: Developing a Co-Parenting Plan -- Managing Different Co-Parenting Styles -- The Mission Statement -- Scheduling Time with the Children -- Logistics Related to Your Children's Care -- New Relationships -- How to Handle Disagreements That Arise -- Parenting Plan Worksheet -- Key Points to Remember -- Chapter 4: Nesting and Finances -- Honesty and Full Disclosure -- Getting Up to Speed with Your Finances -- Why Budgets Are Important -- How to Make a Budget -- Sample Budgets -- Budgeting Template -- Getting by with Less -- Determining Your Nesting Housing Situation Using Your Budget -- Incorporating Your Budget Into Your Nesting Agreement -- Review Your Financial Situation Periodically -- Future Expenses -- Key Points to Remember -- Chapter 5: Creating a Nesting Agreement That Works -- Using Your Co-Parenting Plan As a Foundation for Nesting -- Little Details Can Make a Big Difference -- Be Patient with Each Other -- Making Nesting Successful via Trust -- Focus On What Matters to Each of You -- Create Your Personalized Nesting Agreement -- The Ready-to-Nest Pledge -- Key Points to Remember -- Part Two: Implementing Your Nesting Plan -- Chapter 6: Talking to Your Kids (and Others) about Nesting -- Use Reassuring Language.

Introduction: Conflicted Contact between Parents and Children after Separation1 -- Mavis Maclean -- Part 1: The Changing Landscape of Relationships -- 1. Improving the Quality of Parent-child Contact in Separating Families -- Michael E Lamb -- 2. Why Some Children see their Father and Others do not; Questions Arising from a Pilot Study -- Laura Cardia-Vonèche and Benoit Bastard -- 3. From Marriage to Parenthood: Rethinking Parenthood in Times of Reproductive Innovation -- Malgorzata Fuszara and Jacek Kurczewski -- Part 2: The Conflicts Associated with Post-separation Parenting -- 4. The Parenting Contest: Problems of Ongoing Conflict over Children -- Vanessa May and Carol Smart -- 5. Dangerous Dads and Malicious Mothers: The Relevance of Gender to Contact Disputes -- Liz Trinder -- 6. Legal Discourse and Gender Neutrality in Child Custody Reform in Spain -- Agurtzane Goriena Lekue -- Part 3: Professional Intervention -- 7. Enabling Contact: The Involvement of Psycho-social Professionals in Supporting Contact in Germany -- Katrin Mueller-Johnson -- 8. The Changing Face of Contact in Australia -- Helen Rhoades -- 9. Moving On: The Challenge for Children's Contact Services in Australia -- Grania Sheehan, John Dewar and Rachel Carson -- 10. Children's Contact Services in Australia: The Referral Process -- Belinda Fehlberg and Rosemary Hunter -- 11. Intervening in Litigated Contact: Ideas from Other Jurisdictions -- Joan Hunt

"The past 15 years have seen the explosive growth of a new field of study that has come to be known as coparenting (McHale & Sullivan, 2008). Since the turn of the new millennium, fresh new insights and thoughtful empirical research studies explicitly guided by coparenting frameworks have made their way into the peer-reviewed literature almost every few months. But what is coparenting, and why is there a need for an entire volume taking stock of such a relatively new field of study? Broadly speaking, coparenting is an enterprise undertaken by two or more adults who together take on the care and upbringing of children for whom they share responsibility (McHale, Lauretti, Talbot, & Pouquette, 2002). Viewed as a dynamic force in families that is related to, but also distinct from, parent-child or marital subsystems, coparenting is a framework that traces its roots most directly to Salvador Minuchin's (1974) structural family theory. This book complements and augments healthy marriage frameworks by taking instead the lens of healthy coparenting alliances. We are still very early in the process of learning about how coparenting systems evolve and function, and so this volume marks a moment in time--a point in the evolution of a field in which the questions still outnumber the answers. However, we have brought together for the first time diverse and broad-ranging research on coparenting from a group of contributors who have all provided leadership in this emerging field of research, studying coparenting in a wide range of family forms and systems. Chapters in this volume address what we know about coparenting alliances in nuclear, fragile, and extended kinship systems of different ethnicities and socioeconomic circumstances, in family systems headed by gay and lesbian parents, in circumstances in which biological and foster parents must coordinate as the major coparenting figures in the child's life, and in postdivorce family systems. The volume has two interrelated goals. The first is to bring together in an integrated fashion the latest research on coparenting, covering as best as possible the full gamut of studies with diverse caretaking systems. The second is to present issues directly relevant to clinical practice, attending to both the assessment of coparenting systems and to new and promising intervention efforts. Although all authors have approached coparenting from the same perspective--as the nature of the alliance between the two (or more) adults who together share responsibility for the child's care and upbringing-- readers will note variability across chapters in how authors have operationalized the construct"--Introduction. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2011 APA, all rights reserved).

"In Europe, the percentage of lone-parent families has risen from 14% to 19% between 1996 and 2012. Only in Greece and Finland did the rates fall, while in Denmark and the Republic of Ireland the rise has reached or exceeded 10 percent. As of 2017, there are 2.9 million lone parents with dependent children in the UK, and nine out of ten lone parents are women. Sadly, lone parents are known to experience considerable social, financial, and health problems.Fertility, Health and Lone Parenting examines the way in which lone parents live their lives, and how it impacts their health and well-being. Topics explored in these interdisciplinary contributions include lifestyle, nutrition, and the mental health of both parents and children. Unique empirical case studies within a European context help to expand the reader's understanding, whilst also drawing comparisons between the impacts of lone parenting on young mothers, fathers and their children.A timely volume, this book will appeal to undergraduate and postgraduate students interested in subjects such as Sociology of the Family, Social Policy, Social Work, Gender Studies and Family Policy."--Provided by publisher.

This paper explores how the UK Time Use Survey (UKTUS), together with the author's qualitative interviews and focus groups with London parents, can inform current policy debates about childcare and parental employment. It also refers to the international literature about long-term trends in parental childcare time. It addresses four key questions about time use and parenting, which have implications for theorisation of the 'gender contract' regarding childcare and for our understanding of the gendered distribution of time between care, work and leisure in two-parent families. How is total parenting time affected by parents' work hours? How do the long work weeks of British fathers affect their capacity to share childcare with mothers? Would childcare time rise if work hours were more equally distributed between women and men? This invokes a discussion of how far childcare is really transferable between parents (or can be delegated to external carers); to what extent is it 'work' or a relational activity?

Co-Parenting 101offers a comprehensive, personal, and upfront look at how to effectively raise kids with an ex-spouse. The authors are the creators of the popular website, coparenting101.org, and are co-parents themselves. In the book they share their own experiences, as well as provide professional advice from co-parenting experts. Through practical tips combined with expert parental strategies, this book will encourage and equip divorced parents to put animosity aside and put their kids first

The Texas Title IV‐D child support agency has, on a universal basis, included parenting plans in its child support orders for the last thirty years. While most state child support agencies are just beginning to consider the idea of parenting time orders, Texas has successfully navigated federal regulations and federal funding limitations to ensure that parenting time is made available, as fairly and safely as possible. This article explains how this achievement has been possible, with the existence in Texas law of a standard possession order and a set of simple child support guidelines. It also discusses a variety of innovative and collaborative activities to inform and educate the public about the availability of these services.
Keypoints for the Family Court Community
It is possible for a state child support enforcement agency to obtain child support orders that routinely include parenting time provisions for the nonresident parent.
The inclusion of parenting time in all orders can be accomplished effectively and safely in Texas due to strong public policy, supportive legislation, and agency practices that are innovative and collaborative.

This grounded theory study examined how 20 newly divorced, nonresidential fathers manage their fatherhood identities. The theory created from this study proposes that fathers' perceptions of (a) father‐child relationships, (b) how their children's fiscal needs are met, and (c) barriers to their physical interactions with their children influence their fatherhood identities. In spite of all fathers identifying themselves as involved, three types of fathers emerged: full‐time fathers, part‐time full‐time fathers, and part‐time fathers. The findings suggest that men's conceptualizations of father involvement are influenced by their postdivorce experiences with nonresidential fatherhood.