coparent


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coparent

(kəʊˈpɛərənt)
n
a fellow parent
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Researchers found that a first-time father tended to feel closer to the mother both as a coparent and as a romantic partner when he believed he had her confidence when he was involved in child care.
A woman may feel loss that she did not have a supportive partner who would have helped coparent a child, or loss that she did not have the financial means to care for a child, or loss that a desired pregnancy created a fetus with devastating abnormalities.
"This is a young lady that has never been in trouble before she is pregnant due to give birth in a month or so she is partner of Megan Madden and the hope had been that they would coparent."
Pitt is reportedly looking to be a "present dad and a coparent" of the children.
Pals say Nashville and Heroes actress Hayden, 28, and two-times heavyweight world champion Wladimir, 42, will "coparent" their three-yearold daughter Kaya.
In 2013, Teng-Go, a coparent in the Tantoco kids' school, came onboard and the women decided to professionalize the venture.
(143) The majority listed seven reasons that supported the trial court's finding, four of which were about her inability to coparent with Jason and her unwillingness to let Jason see the child.
Gunn claims she was Abush's coparent in all but the legal sense.
Internal working models of attachment and postdivorce coparent relationships.
Given the systems focus of the current study, we would hope that future applications of CPP would seek to include fathers (or any form of coparent) along with mothers in the treatment process since such a change might yield even broader benefits to the family system.
The couple, who coparent six children, have taken on the task of decorating the venue themselves since Peter is a self-employed master craftsman.
filed June 11, 2009) (citing policy statements of American Academy of Pediatrics: Coparent or Second-Parent Adoption by Same-Sex Parents, 109 Pediatrics 399 (2002), http://aappolicy.aappublications.org/cgi/content/ftill/pediatrics; 109/2/339 (2002); American Psychological Association: Ruth V.