COMMUNITY RELATIONSHIPS

Community Relationships

Community Relationships

Because relationships with parents play a crucial role in shaping children's social, emotional, personal, and cognitive development (Lamb, Hwang, Ketterlinus, & Fracasso, 1999), children are more likely to attain their potential when they are able to develop and maintain meaningful relationships with both of their parents, whether or not the two parents live together. If the parents lived together prior to the separation and the relationships with both parents were of at least adequate quality and supportiveness, then the central challenge is to maintain both child-parent attachments after separation/divorce, whether or not the divorcing parents had “traditional” roles ...