Could you share a "birds nest" home to co-parent with an ex"
by Sara McGinnis posted in Parenting
Divorce is hard on a family, but an approach to living arrangements known as "birds nest" co-parenting may be able to make things easier on the kids. Rather than the children shuffling between their parents' two separate dwellings, they remain in the family home while the parents move from place to place.
It's an approach actor Josh Lucas has adopted as he and ex-wife Jessica Ciencin Henriquez co-parent their 5-year-old son Noah Rev.
"We are both totally committed to raising our son and being in love with our son," the Sweet Home Alabama star, who split with Jessica in 2014, explained to People. "I do believe our relationship will be constantly changing. It's a very remarkably complex period of my life and Jess' life that we?re doing the best we possibly can to keep his life stable." For this family, birds nest co-parenting means Noah lives in a single residence in New York City while his parents alternate who stays with him.
"It's a concept that's fairly new, particularly in the psychology of raising a child in divorce," Josh went on to explain. "And the idea is, it's really not the child's fault that you got divorced."
"It's your fault and therefore it should not be the child's problem to go back and forth between two different homes. It should actually be the parents? problem."
So how has it been working for this couple" Josh says it can be "tough," but ther...
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