Alternatives to the Bitter Divorce BetterDivorce. Divorce Support Divorce Process Children and Divorce Co-Parenting Resources . Adversarial divorce pits one spouse against another. This is especially destructive when children are involved.
Adversarial divorce accentuates conflicts that exist between the father and the mother.
It creates a climate of escalating turmoil and anxiety. Too often, it results in sharply reducing the role one of the parents plays in the child's life. We believe that a child needs both parents. It is crucial, for the children's sake, that parents be encouraged to cooperate during and after divorce. We favor approaches to divorce that reduce conflict instead of exacerbating it.