Other interested professionals include parent educators, mediators, guardians ad litem and custody evaluators. Professionals working with divorcing families will find the ideas and methods highlighted in Cooperative Parenting stimulating, compassionate and enormously valuable. The majority of parents who have participated in Cooperative Parenting have found the program extremely helpful. They maintain that it created a dramatic effect on their parental relationship by improving communication, negotiation, trust and a reducing of conflict. Moreover, parents have commented that the sessions have assisted them to help their children cope successfully with the changing family structure.
Parents quickly discover that the structure of the program provides an emotionally safe environment.
They also are surprised when they learn that they have the power to make positive changes with or without the assistance of the other parent. Grandparents and stepparents have also acknowledged the value of the Cooperative Parenting Program. Similarly children report a reduction in parental conflict and a significant decrease in emotional stress. Gwinnett, Dekalb, Fulton and Cobb. The Cooperative Parenting Program has been well received by the Atlanta community.