How The Good Cop/Bad Cop Parenting Dynamic Ruins Marriages

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So parents can’t discipline kids together

Now you have a situation in which the parents can’t discipline the kids together. The bad cop has been left out of the situation entirely—she’s in the dark about that bad grade or that broken iPad. The good cop is making disciplinary decisions on his own, which isn’t fair.

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