oscar winning actress reese witherspoon is all praise for her exhusband ryan phillippe because he is a great fatherreese and phillippe split in 2007 but they still maintain a pleasant relationship for the sake of their children ava and deacon contactmusiccom reports her saying my exhusband is involved in raising our beautiful children were very lucky because we both grew up in working families in middle america were on the same page that way when were with our children were very good about checking ourselves im teaching the children what we were taught growing up a real set of rules discipline and lovereese witherspoon had won an oscar for her performance in walk the line