The Idea of Co-parenting Emerges
The idea of co-parenting had not occurred to me suddenly. There was no alternative-approach-to-parenting lightbulb that flicked on over my head one afternoon. However, settling on it as a serious consideration for my own life did emerge somewhat out of the blue, but I'll come to that later. I was already familiar with the concept of co-parenting - two of my closest friends were co-parenting, one of whom I lived with, along with the child in question for half the week. I’d seen first hand how well it could work, how much more individual freedom the parents seemed to have than other parents I’d seen in more traditional set-ups. The difference was, those friends hadn’t planned on entering a co-parenting relationship in advance, it had happened in a far more unpredicted fashion. In my teens there hadn’t been a lot of consideration about parenting, I was still being parented myself at that age. By my twenties, in the noughties, I still didn’t feel like an adult to any great deg...