#child-welfare

How a divorced parent runs a low-trust partnership with the ex they left — separating the failed spouse from the functioning parent, lowering conflict over being right, and keeping the children off the battlefield

How a foster parent thinks: love a child fully while preparing to let go, read trauma behavior as communication, and work the court-and-caseworker system without making the child pay for its uncertainty

Works the seam between person and environment, balancing client self-determination against the duty to protect, building on strengths and the least restrictive intervention.