Tips for Co-parenting – Before Divorce
By Lisa Levey normalityrelief/Flickr In doing a Google search on the word co-parenting, I quickly found that co-parenting is a word we reserve for divorced families, not intact ones. Isn’t it strange that in 2012 we don’t have a word—a common vocabulary—to describe mothers and fathers fully sharing in the care of raising their children? Instead our collective norm has been to become co-parents onl
How We Provide for Children: In Search of Gender Equality
© Andres Rodriguez – Fotolia.com My son is with me three to four days a week. I am responsible for getting him to school and picking him up. I do his laundry. I pack his lunch. We do his homework together. I read to him as he falls off to sleep. My son and I have a wonderful and deeply rewarding relationship and I have fought hard to insure that he remains in my life on an almost daily basis. For
Rebuilding After Divorce: From An Ocean View To So Much More
I was born independent. I had an unbelievable drive inside myself to make money even before it was legal for me to get a job. I sold cherry tomatoes that I grew, door to door in my neighborhood, when I was 12. I washed cars, pulled weeds in people’s yards, just waiting until I was 16 so I could get a ‘real’ job. When I was 18, I moved out of my family home just three days after graduating from hig