Discovering and Explaining Parents' Lived Experiences of Co-Parenting after Divorce

11/ 1400 Abstract Parenting after divorce is one of the most sensitive tasks for divorced parents and is one of the effective factors in children's mental health. The purpose of this study is to explore and explain parents' lived experiences of co-parenting after divorce. This study was performed qualitatively using Descriptive phenomenology sampling, 12 people (female, male) were selected and inte-rviewed semi-structured. Data were anal-yzed by Colaizzi seven-step method. The results of the analysis led to the iden-tification of five main themes: The rela-tionship between parents, accountability, supervision, parental challenges and Soci-al-psychological harms in parenting. Parents focused on eliminating the other co-parent as a parental figure – just as their role as a spouse was eliminated after di-vorce-rather than concentrating on the task of parenting.