| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立政治大學 === 社會工作研究所 === 107 === The purpose of this study is to examine the coordination process and results of co-parenting between divorced parents with a history of marital violence, with the aim to provide a more comprehensive and prospective research insight to serve as a reference for future practice. Through in-depth interviews, the co-parenting experiences of seven parents with their former spouses were gathered. The results are as follows:
1.The portrait of co-parenting: Co-parenting is a dynamic process. Three types of co-parenting emerged from the interviewees’ stories, including cooperation type, cooperation-resistance mix type, and incompatible resistance type. Co-parenting did not happen naturally between divorced parents. It was rather a learning process. An inevitable opportunity in which parents learned to put their children’s well-being before them, and shifted toward a positive persective about co-parenting. Though every parent had to do this at their own pace.
2.Four factors emerged from the data that might affect the co-parenting process: Prior life experiences, the dissolution of marriage in a legal versus a psychological sense, the attitude and belief toward co-parenting, and lastly the quality of the support system. These four factors supported divorced parents with a history of marital violence to overcome life crises.
3.Co-parenting for the well-being of the children: Whether marital violence became a hindrance for divorced parents or not, it was depended on the way parents interpreted the situation and the way they adapted and coped with it. Parents not only needed to practice being a parent and improve parenting skills. They also needed to learn to coordinate and collaborate with their divorced spouse. Cooperations between divorced parents helped everyone to move forward in life.
Lastly, limitations and recommendations are discussed concerning this study and its fidnings.
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