Trauma-Informed Co-Parenting: How A Shift in Compulsory Divorce Education to Reflect New Brain Development Research Can Promote Both Parents’ and Children’s Best Interests
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Concerned about the health and emotional wellbeing of children adversely affected by their parents’ divorce, legislatures throughout the United States have enacted laws requiring divorcing parents to attend coparenting classes. The goal of this state intervention in the post-divorce family is to ensure that parents learn ways to minimize conflict between them and harm to their children. While thousands of parents take these classes structured as “opportunity” for education and resources about building parental skills, recent discoveries about brain development and function in medical research have demonstrated that individuals’ history of trauma can have a profound impact on their emotional functioning, mental health, and physical welfare. Called a hidden epidemic, the negative long-
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