Should divorced co-parents ask their children to keep secrets?
On behalf of Stange Law Firm, PC posted in Child Custody on Wednesday, March 11, 2015. One of the fundamental struggles of sharing child custody is the need for cooperation and communication between co-parents. The reason this is difficult, obviously, is that recently divorced spouses often have high amounts of animosity toward one another. Unfortunately, children are the ones who suffer most when there is any fighting or lack of cooperation between their divorced parents. And things can get even more dicey when mom and dad ask the kids to keep secrets from their other parent. The phrases “don’t tell your mother” and “don’t tell you