Conflict between parents is stressful for children living in the midst of parental separation or divorce. Although some level of post-separation/divorce conflict is understandable in an emotionally-charged separation/divorce, it undermines the extent to which parents can protect their children from short- and long-term problems. In this article, we weave together a synthesized perspective informed by our respective training and experience in prevention science and family law on the role of parent education programs for high-conflict separating/divorcing parents. To do so, we first describe the research on the effects of interparental conflict on children's outcomes and then discuss current approaches and challenges to reducing these negative effects by offering parent education programs for high-conflict separating/divorcing parents. Then, we propose and describe a new model for early, effective, and scalable parent education programs with the ultimate goal of protecting children after separation/divorce.

中文翻译：

---

呼吁为高度冲突的分居/离婚父母提供早期、有效和可扩展的家长教育计划：预防科学和家庭法的综合视角

父母之间的冲突会给生活在父母分居或离婚中的孩子带来压力。尽管在情绪激动的分居/离婚中，一定程度的分居/离婚后冲突是可以理解的，但这会削弱父母保护孩子免受短期和长期问题影响的程度。在本文中，我们根据各自在预防科学和家庭法方面的培训和经验，编织了一个综合观点，探讨家长教育计划对高冲突分居/离婚父母的作用。为此，我们首先描述有关父母间冲突对儿童结果影响的研究，然后讨论通过为高度冲突的分居/离婚父母提供家长教育计划来减少这些负面影响的当前方法和挑战。然后，我们提出并描述了一种早期、有效和可扩展的家长教育计划的新模式，其最终目标是保护分居/离婚后的儿童。