Dr. Danielle Forshee shares her thoughts with PureWow Magazine on how nesting is a practical way for divorced couples to co-parent their children.
Meet the Expert
Dr. Danielle Forshee is a licensed psychologist and licensed clinical social worker specializing in both forensic and clinical practice, with a primary focus on matters arising in Family Court. Her areas of expertise include high-conflict divorce and custody disputes, parent-child contact problems, and the psychological complexities that often accompany these cases.
What Is Bird Nesting?
Bird nesting is a unique co-parenting arrangement in which the kids stay in the family home and the separated parents split their time between that home and another one, depending on who has custody. Dr. Forshee tells me that this could play out in a number of different ways. She’s had cases where parents are not in a position financially to have a second residence, so they stay at a friend’s house or family member’s house every so often while the other parent is having their parenting time in the home, and then they swap; she has also had cases where parents do have the ability to “share” a separate residence, or even have two separate residences (i.e., one each) apart from the family home.
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