All About Co-Parenting a Child with Type 1 Diabetes
Written by Ginger Vieira on December 28, 2020 — Fact checked by Jennifer Chesak Jeremy Rolfsmeyer and his son Thaymen, who lives with type 1 diabetes. Parenting a child with type 1 diabetes (T1D) is beyond a full-time job, often taken on by whichever parent plays the primary role in daily child care. But what happens when a family is split into two households by a separation or divorce? As if as the hour-by-hour detailed maintenance required by this disease weren’t enough, juggling the needs of a child’s T1D between two households can become remarkably complicated and stressful. Diabete...