Co-parenting with a Drug Addict: A Comprehensive Guide

di Spencer Westel (Autore)

Spencer Westel, 2025

Co-parenting is challenging under the best circumstances. When one parent struggles with addiction, the complexity multiplies exponentially. If you're managing custody arrangements with someone using drugs, trying to maintain stability for your children while your ex or partner struggles with substance abuse, or deciding whether to allow your child contact with an addicted parent, you need more than hope—you need a practical roadmap. By Spencer Westel, this comprehensive guide provides evidence-based strategies and real-world solutions for one of the most difficult parenting situations you can face. Written with compassion and clarity, Co-Parenting with a Drug Addict acknowledges a profound truth: addiction is a disease worthy of understanding, and your children's safety is non-negotiable. You can hold both these truths simultaneously while building a stable, healthy family environment. What You'll Learn: This 8,500+ word guide covers everything you need to know, including establishing boundaries that protect your children while preserving the parent-child relationship, documenting incidents for legal protection, communicating effectively with a struggling co-parent, supporting your children through trauma and confusion, navigating treatment, recovery, and relapse, working with family courts and professional systems, managing your own emotional wellbeing, and building long-term resilience and stability for your family. Real-World Scenarios Covered: Co-parenting during active addiction, supporting recovery and relapse, managing supervised visitation, handling witnessed substance use, dealing with unfulfilled promises, navigating new partners and blended families, working with child protective services, and planning for long-term safety. Why This Book Stands Out: Unlike generic co-parenting books, this guide specifically addresses the unique challenges of addiction. It doesn't judge your co-parent or dismiss your legitimate safety concerns. Instead, it provides frameworks like the BIFF communication method, practical boundary-setting strategies, and emotional support for the non-addicted parent. You'll find clear guidance on what you can and cannot control, when to involve legal systems, and how to help your children thrive despite their parent's struggle. Perfect For: Parents co-parenting with someone struggling with substance abuse, divorcing or separating from an addicted partner, navigating custody modifications due to addiction, supporting children dealing with a parent's addiction, family law professionals and therapists seeking client resources, and anyone seeking compassionate, practical guidance through this difficult situation. Your children's stability starts with your clarity. Your family's resilience comes from your boundaries and compassion. This book gives you the tools to create both.

• Autore: Spencer Westel
• Anno edizione: 2025
• Editore: Spencer Westel
• Formato: EPUB2 con DRMFREE
• Lingua: Inglese
• Compatibilità: Tutti i dispositivi (eccetto Kindle)
• Layout: Reflowable
• EAN: 9798230414414