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There were downsides, of course. Perry's and Esther's friends and colleagues had trouble finding them. Hauling a week's worth of clothes to and fro was a pain. And Esther began to long for more privacy. So when the couple decided to shift from separation to divorce after...
Divorce experts see birdnesting and similar arrangements as well-meaning attempts to come to terms with America's divorce-prone culture. "Adults are searching for models that are acceptable, feel good and also recognize divorce," says Shirley Thomas, author of Parents Are Forever. "Too many lost their fathers when their...
There is no large-scale research on the effects on children of such arrangements, because they remain a small-scale phenomenon. Many studies, though, find that children are more likely to thrive when they have access to both parents. And birdnesting is one--albeit extreme--means of maintaining access. But...
Two and a half years ago, Tera moved in with her boyfriend David to make room in the house for Mark's new wife Erin and her son from an earlier marriage, Tyler. Now Noa and Zoe must commute between homes once a week. But the entire family--including the...
Though some couples share housing as a transition to divorce, others come to it later, after some of the inevitable ill feeling has dissipated. Relations between Mary Kaye and Pat Perotti were frosty when they divorced in 1992. The three kids, then ages 8 through 15, lived with their mother...