The Relationship of Remarriage to Post-Divorce Co-Parenting

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to examine the ielation- ship between remarriage and indicators of post-divorce co-parenting. A sample of 372 women and 277 men contacted three years after their divorce was used. Marital status was a statistically significant predic- tor for eight of the twelve regression analyses that were conducted for the women and men. The regression equations indicated that remar- riage was associated with less frequent co-parental interaction, less re- ported parenting support from the former spouse, and more negative attitudes about the other parent for both women and men; less parent- ing satisfaction and lower levels of involvement in children's aclivi- ties for remarried men. These findings are discussed and the relation- ship between remarriage and post-divorce co-parenting is explored.