Predicting Postdivorce Coparental Communication

Coparenting in the Digital Era: Exploring Divorced Parents’ Use of Technology

“…There are currently several technology-based programs to help coparents with shared calendars that have proven helpful for parents to make decisions regarding involvement in activities and supporting positive perceptions of the other parent, but can have the risk of reducing privacy (Odom et al, 2010). Coparents who believe that interacting with the other parent about child-related decisions will benefit both themselves and their child are more likely to engage in communication (Ganong, Coleman, Markham, & Rothrauff, 2011), and report similar messages in face-to-face and technology supported modes (Laliker & Lannutti, 2014). There is limited research on divorced parent's use of technology to communicate with their children when unable to connect in person.…”

Transitioning to Postdivorce Family Life: A Grounded Theory Investigation of Resilience in Coparenting

“…Divorce requires new ways of communicating about parenting (Graham, ); those who succeed at this task tend to have better coparenting relationships. Ganong, Coleman, Stafford Markham, and Rothrauff () found that couples that felt satisfied with their coparenting relationships communicated more frequently with their ex‐spouses. Conversely, couples with strained relationships struggled to communicate about their children.…”

“…Coparenting Attitudes. Research has shown that couples feel more satisfied or experience fewer conflicts in their coparenting relationships when they trust the other parent to take good care of their children (Madden-Derdich & Leonard, 2002;Markham & Coleman, 2011), when they feel that financial arrangements (e.g., child support) are fair, and when they see their children regularly (Bonach, 2005). Believing that coparenting is important and feeling invested in parenting also has been shown to boost coparental cooperation (Madden-Derdich & Leonard, 2000;Markham, Ganong, & Coleman, 2007).…”

Gay fathers' coparenting experiences with ex-wives

“…It is perhaps not surprising, then, that ex-wives whom fathers described as less cooperative coparents hold more conservative religious views (e.g., homonegative, marriage as sacred), and their divorce stories, according to the fathers, involve seeing fathers as maliciously choosing to be gay and wronging them. Social messages also affect how mothers coparent (Ganong, Coleman, Markham, & Rothrauff, 2011), and ex-wives who consistently receive homonegative messages from family and others regarding their ex-husbands likely value them less as coparents.…”

“…The perspectives of ex-wives whose husbands came out as gay has been studied independently (e.g., Buxton, 2009;Gochros, 1989), but these researchers did not examine how these perspectives affect post-divorce coparenting. Future research should examine couple data to determine how factors such as attitudes towards the other parent and beliefs about coparenting can affect the dynamics of these relationships as well as those of heterosexual post-divorce coparents (e.g., Ganong et al, 2011).…”