Divorce Yet Together: Ongoing Personal Relationship and Co-Parenting Among Divorced Parents.

In this study, Dr. Selenga Gürmen and her colleagues aimed to 1) understand whether a divorced couple's parenting relationship is affected by ongoing personal and emotional involvement, 2) expand the concept of ongoing  personal and emotional involvement between ex-partners as protective factors, and 3) investigate how ongoing personal relationship relates to the perceived quality of co-parenting among divorced families. 

It was found that the relationship quality between ex-spouses was associated with parents' perceptions of the co-parenting relationship. The results show that feeling personally and emotionally involved with the ex-partner increases the likelihood of perceiving higher quality in the co-parenting relationship.

This study also found that there is a gender difference in regards to dyadic perceptions of ongoing relationship and coparenting relationship. 

The results showed that when ex-husbands reported being personally and emotionally involved with their ex-wives, ex-wives perceived the co-parenting relationship to be of high quality. 

However, the same was not true for the opposite situation. This was explained within the study as ex-husbands' ongoing personal and emotional involvement was recognized and valued by ex-wives and was linked to their reports of the quality of co-parenting. 

As an overview of these findings, the study shows that ex-partners' perceptions of the quality of co-parenting are closely linked to their ongoing personal and emotional attachment to their ex-partner.