Parents Are Forever: A Step-By-Step Guide to Becoming Successful Coparents After Divorce

Parents Are Forever leads parents gently, in step-by-step fashion, toward becoming successful coparents after divorce. Based on the grief recovery model, this book tells moms and dads exactly what they need to do to help the children they love cope with changes in their lives.Parents are shown how to have business meetings, how to create a parenting plan, and how to keep their childrens' needs as their first priority while they transition to a new kind of family.

Shirley Thomas, PhD, is a psychologist in Colorado who has helped thousands of children and parents cope with separation and divorce. She emphasizes coparenting education in her work, and regularly consults with courts about the needs of children. First published in 1995, the revised edition of Parents Are Forever is widely used as a textbook in parenting classes about the needs of children to have two, cooperative parents in their lives after divorce.