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The purpose of this study was to develop a scale for measuring co-parenting and gatekeeping following divorce (CGD) and examine its reliability and validity as well as to investigate the effects of parental CGD on children’s adjustment. Men and women who had undergone a divorce in the past 9 years (N = 432) were analyzed. The CGD scale has a certain degree of reliability, validity, and configural invariance between custodial parents and non-custodial parents. Additionally, we tested a hypothetical model on 166 mothers living with children aged 2 to 17 years. The results indicated that conflicting co-parenting was correlated with “total difficulty” of the Strength and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ) and cooperative co-parenting; on the other hand, it was not directly correlated with SDQ, but facilitative gatekeeping was correlated with “total difficulty” of SDQ only in the group that included a high level of the father's violence before the separation. Finally, implications for co-parenting and parent-child relationships following divorce and psychoeducation