How does choosing divorce mediation over litigation help the children?
First, divorce mediation is a cooperative process: parents work together to develop their final agreement, which includes provisions for parenting the children. This cooperative approach usually continues after the divorce is finalized. On the other hand, in litigated divorces, the parents are adversaries, and therefore often assume adversarial parenting roles–thus putting the children “in the middle” of their parents’ disagreements. The second way that divorce mediation is preferable for children is that divorce mediation encourages you to be creative and flexible, so that you can devise parenting plans that meet your family’s unique needs and circumstances. In contrast, litigation discourages cooperation and creativity, and gives the decision-making power to the attorneys and the courts.
