Episode 65: Co-Parenting During the COVID-19 Pandemic
The Divorce Survival Guide Podcast
Kate Anthony
4.4 • 574 Ratings
🗓️ 24 March 2020
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
This week I'm sharing my recommendations for co-parenting during the COVID-19 pandemic. If you're a member of my Facebook group or follow me on Instagram, you may have heard me talking about how there are no shelter-in-place or quarantine guidelines for divorced families, especially those with blended families. We are told to stay home or to shelter-in-place, but what is a quarantine when you have children spread out across multiple households?
The government can't necessarily mandate how blended families react to quarantine, but they can make guidelines. Unfortunately, I haven't heard one politician or infectious disease expert say a single thing about our demographic.
As it stands right now, co-parenting guidelines are simply, "Comply with your court orders." And, in many cases, that can be dangerous for everyone's health.
In this episode, I've put together some ways that co-parents can deal with the current situation.
Here are just a few of the topics I touch on in this episode:
- Why communication with your co-parent is crucial now, more than ever
- What to do when you have an ex who is not taking the pandemic seriously
- The importance of talking to your children in age-appropriate ways about COVID-19
- How to cope with being stuck cohabitating with your soon-to-be-ex and how to continue with divorce proceedings
- If you are in an abusive relationship in quarantine, you are in danger.
Resources and Links:
Susan Guthrie, Divorce in a Better Way
Hello Divorce (for the State of California only)
It's Over Easy
National Domestic Violence Hotline: 1- 800-799-7233
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Divorce Survival Guide podcast, where we have open and honest conversations about co-parenting, separation, divorce, and the hardest question of all, should you stay or should you go. |
| 0:17.6 | I'm Kate Anthony, your divorce survival guide, and I'm here to help you navigate some of the |
| 0:23.5 | roughest waters you've ever swum in and answer some of your toughest questions. I've been to |
| 0:29.1 | hell and back, and now it's my mission in life to help you get to the other side of this process |
| 0:35.0 | with your sanity and your heart intact. |
| 0:42.6 | Welcome to the coronavirus edition of the Divorce Survival Guide podcast. You all know I had to do it, |
| 0:52.4 | right? Um, holy crap. Holy crap. I know this is probably, |
| 0:58.6 | I don't know if this is the first thing or the last thing you guys want to hear about. Have you |
| 1:02.0 | gotten 7,000 emails from companies that you just didn't even know that you were subscribed to |
| 1:07.8 | with their coronavirus update? Corona virus? That's where we'reis virus update. Corona's virus? |
| 1:12.7 | That's where we're at, kids. |
| 1:14.2 | That's where we're at. |
| 1:15.0 | Who's homeschooling? |
| 1:16.0 | Woo-hoo! |
| 1:17.7 | Or pretending to. |
| 1:20.1 | Oh, my God. |
| 1:21.9 | You know, there was a wonderful post going around about, like, just give yourselves a |
| 1:27.0 | break. |
| 1:28.0 | You know, all of a sudden, with all the pressures that we have, us moms, all the pressures |
| 1:33.4 | that we put on ourselves and are put upon us as a society, right? |
| 1:38.4 | You know, now we're expected to suddenly be homeschoolers. |
| 1:43.0 | Now I think that there's this additional, this added pressure suddenly |
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