When you realise it's the , saving children from the damaging , getting together a co-parenting arrangement is likely the most important thing on your mind. But singer/songwriter Paloma Faith has now revealed why, post-split from her ex-partner, she has decided not to use the term co-parent when talking about the arrangements she has agreed on with the father of her two daughters. "I don't like the word co-parent because co implies it is 50/50 and I don't believe it is," she revealed in an interview on ITV's Explaining her stance, she said, "I'm not saying that I don't think my children's dad is amazing, but I think we need to say what is actually happening and not over compliment the men.
" What is 'actually happening', Faith says, is men simply fulfilling the bare minimum of parenting duties. While she agreed that some fathers do actively participate in a significant portion of parenting once they've split with their partner, the singer still believes that mothers are the ones bearing most of and spend more time with the children. She added, "I don't use the word 'co-parent', I say, 'Oh my kids go to their dads a few nights a week' and I'm so happy that they do that and that they've got a lovely father.
But let's not over compliment them because they do get that all the time...
Let's not over applaud them for actually parenting." Faith has been incredibly candid about the heartbreak she has experienced following her 2022 separation from her ex Leyman Lahcine, saying that the.
