Mental Health of Children in Divorce

How Parents Can Help Kids Deal with Divorce

David Kuroda MSW ’72 has spent his career advocating for children—and healthy divorces. OVER HIS DECADES-LONG career as a social worker, counselor and mediator, David Kuroda MSW ’72 has helped some 8,000 families navigate the stress of separation and divorce. He has seen firsthand that dividing a family is never easy, but it doesn’t have to come at the cost of a child’s well-being. “It’s not the divorce that hurts children,” he says. “It’s the way parents get divorced, and the amount of conflict between them, that harms children.” Read More

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Mental Health of Children in Divorce

Improving The Mental Health of Children in Divorce

Improving The Mental Health of Children in Divorce By Alison Spirito and Joseph P. Spirito, Jr. High-conflict behavior during divorce may have a more significant effect on children than divorce itself.[1] Children who witness their parents’ high-conflict divorces suffer from preventable mental and emotional health problems at significantly higher rates than children from intact families or even divorced families where the parents exhibit low or no conflict.[2] While litigation often normalizes high conflict, Collaborative Law and mediation consistently succeed in severing it from the divorce process by promoting consensual dispute resolution and drawing on the unique skills of child specialists […]

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Co-Parenting

From the Kids Perspective: Co-Parenting Through Divorce

Vi Ballard & Paula March Website: southbaytherapist.com “Co-Parenting” 3rd Saturday,  9am-12pm, $75/person ABD mental health professionals Vi Ballard & Paula March facilitate a co-parenting class “From the Kids Perspective: Co-Parenting Through Divorce” the third Saturday of every month at the Collaborative Center of Southern California in Hermosa Beach. For more information call Paula March at 310-245- 6814.

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What is meant by joint legal custody

Family Code ‘3083, with reference to the order of preferred joint legal custodystates as follows:“In making an order of joint legal custody, the court shall specify the circumstances under which the consent of both parents is required to be obtained in order to exercise legal control of the child and the consequences of the failure to obtain mutual consent. In all other circumstances, either parent acting alone may exercise legal control of the child An order of joint legal custody shall not be construed to permit an action that is inconsistent with the physical custody order unless the action is expressly […]

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