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On her blog, NonCustodial Parent Community, Rebekah Spicuglia captions the above picture of her and her son: "This is what 'visitation' looks like." Think you know what "noncustodial" really means? Think again, and check out our interview with a woman whom MSN calls a "Mom Inspired to Change History"...  Read more >

When Co-Parents Collide: Interview with Parenting Coordinator, Brooke Randolph

Brooke Randolph is a licensed mental health counselor/therapist who also serves as a parenting coordinator. Increasingly, family courts are turning to parenting coordinators to assist co-parents experiencing high levels of conflict.  Read more >

"How do I tell my kids I'm going for sole custody?"

A co-parenting dad writes: "After two-and-a-half years of attempting to co-parent with a uncooperative ex who refuses to communicate with me, who doesn't attend to our children's emotional and physical well-being nor to their educational needs, and who persists in dragging our kids into the middle of our conflict--I have filed to modify our custody arrangement from joint custody (50-50) to sole physical custody. What is the best way to talk to my kids, age 10 and 12, about this?"  Read more >

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Full Name
Deesha Philyaw
Member Since
January 2008
About Me: 

Deesha Philyaw is the co-founder, with her ex-husband, of CoParenting101.org, a resource for those parenting across two households after a divorce or break-up. A Pittsburgh-based freelance writer, Deesha's publication credits include Essence, Bitch, and Wondertime magazines, and The Washington Post. Her writing has been anthologized in Literary Mama: Reading for the Maternally Inclined (Seal Press); and Just Like a Girl: A Manifesta! and Woman's Work (GirlChild Press). Deesha teaches as an adjunct professor in Chatham University's Master's of Professional Writing program.  She is at work on a YA novel, and is co-author of the forthcoming book Co-Parenting 101: Advice from a Formerly Married Couple on Parenting Across Two Households (New Harbinger, 2013).  Deesha is mom and stepmom to 4 daughters.

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writer
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Pittsburgh
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