Because of the rate at which children are born outside of marriage and couples sometimes decide against pursuing a long-term relationship with each other but want to remain in their child’s life, the best alternative is co-parenting. I’ll put in a disclaimer here before I trip over my own tongue though: I have little to no experience co-parenting and I’m therefore not speaking from an experiential standpoint. However, I still choose to write about this because I have watched other parents around me co-parent and I’ve learnt a ton of things from them. Secondly, given the rate at which this has become part of society now, it’s important to begin or add to the conversation on this issue. And so with that, I’d like to point out some (not all) the ways in which it is possible to develop and manage a healthy co-parenting relationship. ...
