Parents Forever: Evaluation of an Online Divorce Education Program

Emily Becher; Sarah E Cronin; Ellie McCann; Kjersti A Olson; Sharon E Powell; Mary S. Marczak

doi:10.1080/10502556.2015.1025900

Parents Forever: Evaluation of an Online Divorce Education Program

Emily Becher, Sarah E Cronin, Ellie McCann, Kjersti A Olson, Sharon E Powell, Mary S. Marczak

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Divorce education programs are conducting increasingly rigorous impact evaluations to assess if their curriculum improves parenting practices, reduces conflict in the coparenting relationship, and improves outcomes for children. This article presents a 6-month follow-up evaluation of the online version of Parents Forever, an 8-hour divorce education course developed by the University of Minnesota Extension. At follow-up, parents (N = 232) reported significant improvements on several questions about postdivorce parenting and well-being, indicating that the online version of Parents Forever is effective in promoting positive behavioral change for parents.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	261-276
Number of pages	16
Journal	Journal of Divorce and Remarriage
Volume	56
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/10502556.2015.1025900
State	Published - May 19 2015

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