Growing Up With Divorce

Growing Up With Divorce

Author: Neil Kalter

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2006-01-05

Total Pages: 436

ISBN-13: 0743280857

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"Practical strategies to counteract the newly discovered long-term effects of divorce on children"--Jacket subtitle.


Primal Loss

Primal Loss

Author: Leila Miller

Publisher: Lcb Publishing

Published: 2017-05-20

Total Pages: 326

ISBN-13: 9780997989311

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Seventy now-adult children of divorce give their candid and often heart-wrenching answers to eight questions (arranged in eight chapters, by question), including: What were the main effects of your parents' divorce on your life? What do you say to those who claim that "children are resilient" and "children are happy when their parents are happy"? What would you like to tell your parents then and now? What do you want adults in our culture to know about divorce? What role has your faith played in your healing? Their simple and poignant responses are difficult to read and yet not without hope. Most of the contributors--women and men, young and old, single and married--have never spoken of the pain and consequences of their parents' divorce until now. They have often never been asked, and they believe that no one really wants to know. Despite vastly different circumstances and details, the similarities in their testimonies are striking; as the reader will discover, the death of a child's family impacts the human heart in universal ways.


Two Homes, One Childhood

Two Homes, One Childhood

Author: Robert E. Emery Ph.D.

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2016-08-09

Total Pages: 338

ISBN-13: 0698404246

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A paradigm-shifting model of parenting children in two homes from an internationally recognized expert. A researcher, therapist, and mediator, Robert Emery, Ph.D., details a new approach to sharing custody with children in two homes. Huge numbers of children are affected by separation, divorce, cohabitation breakups, and childbearing outside of marriage. These children have two homes. But their parents have only one chance to protect their childhood. Building on his 2004 book The Truth About Children and Divorce and a strong evidence base, including his own research, Emery explains that a parenting plan that lasts a lifetime is one that grows and changes along with children’s—and families’—developing needs. Parents can and should work together to renegotiate schedules to best meet the changing needs of children from infancy through young adult life. Divided into chapters that address the specific needs of children as they grow up, Emery: • Introduces his Hierarchy of Children’s Needs in Divorce • Provides specific advice for successful parenting, starting with infancy and reaching into emerging adulthood • Advocates for joint custody but notes that children do not count minutes and neither should parents • Highlights that there is only one “side” for parents to take in divorce: the children’s side Himself the father of five children, one from his first marriage, Emery brings a rare combination of personal and professional insight and guidance for every parent raising a child in two homes.


Growing Through Divorce

Growing Through Divorce

Author: Jim Smoke

Publisher: Harvest House Publishers

Published: 2007-08-01

Total Pages: 258

ISBN-13: 0736918159

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"Growing Through Divorce is one of the most practical, insightful, and helpful books available today." H. Norman Wright More than 600,000 copies sold! Now with a brand-new cover, Jim Smoke's compassionate and supportive book will help many thousands more. Jim has counseled single-again people for more than 30 years. Drawing on this experience, he offers men and women the practical, step-by-step help they need to survive the turmoil of divorce and come out healthy and secure. Readers are encouraged to: look at divorce recovery as a healing process develop a solid support system give themselves time and permission to experience the myriad emotions provide support and understanding to their children take care of themselves financially, physically, and emotionally Although devastating, divorce doesn't mean life is over. Joy and love will come again. Growing Through Divorce helps readers transform a difficult ending to a fresh beginning.


The Storms Can't Hurt the Sky

The Storms Can't Hurt the Sky

Author: Gabriel Cohen

Publisher: Da Capo Lifelong Books

Published: 2009-03-12

Total Pages: 290

ISBN-13: 0786746459

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Buddhism has been applied to everything from parenting to golf, but until now no one has offered Buddhist principles as a healing path through divorce. In Storms Can't Hurt the Sky, Gabriel Cohen bravely delves into his personal experience-along with insights from Buddhist masters, parables, humor, social science studies, and interviews with other divorces-to provide a practical and very helpful guide to surviving the pain of any break-up. Focusing on the emotions most common in the dissolution of a relationship-anger, resentment, loss, and grief -- Storms Can't Hurt the Sky shows how thinking about these feelings in surprisingly different ways can lead to a radically better experience. This compulsively readable book offers sound advice and much-needed empathy for anyone dealing with a break-up.


Adult Children of Divorce

Adult Children of Divorce

Author: Elizabeth Thayer

Publisher: New Harbinger Publications

Published: 2003-11-01

Total Pages: 202

ISBN-13: 1608825957

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If your parents divorced when you were young, you were probably affected by the breakdown fo their marriage. Divided loyalties, secrets kept from the other parent, one life lived in two separate houses—these may have been par for the course. With this guide, you will learn that the effects of the divorce are not permanently harmful. Find out how to forgive your parents, discover new ways to enrich your own relationships and learn that there are alternative realities available. Divorce experts and psychologists Jeffrey Zimmerman, Ph.D., and Elizabeth S. Thayer Ph.D., show you how to recognize how your parents’ divorce influenced your life, resulting in disruptions such as relationship failures due to financial reasons, difficulties with commitment, and repeated situations that “just don’t seem to work out.” They provide techniques to help you understand and overcome these and other issues common to adult children of divorced parents. Zimmerman and Thayer focus on helping you learn how to build self-esteem, become resilient, establish healthy boundaries, communicate clearly, open up to trust, show love, believe in commitment and deal with vulnerable feelings.


Growing Up Divorced

Growing Up Divorced

Author: Linda Bird Francke

Publisher: Simon & Schuster

Published: 1983

Total Pages: 314

ISBN-13:

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Presents guidelines for divorced parents to help them guide their children through emotional problems resulting from divorce.


Understanding the Divorce Cycle

Understanding the Divorce Cycle

Author: Nicholas H. Wolfinger

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2005-07-11

Total Pages: 200

ISBN-13: 9780521851169

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Wolfinger argues that no-fault divorce laws should be left in place.


Between Two Worlds

Between Two Worlds

Author: Elizabeth Marquardt

Publisher: National Geographic Books

Published: 2006-09-26

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 0307237117

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Is there really such a thing as a “good divorce”? Determined to uncover the truth, Elizabeth Marquardt—herself a child of divorce—conducted, with Professor Norval Glenn, a pioneering national study of children of divorce, surveying 1,500 young adults from both divorced and intact families between 2001 and 2003. In Between Two Worlds, she weaves the findings of that study together with powerful, unsentimental stories of the childhoods of young people from divorced families. The hard truth, she says, is that while divorce is sometimes necessary, even amicable divorces sow lasting inner conflict in the lives of children. When a family breaks in two, children who stay in touch with both parents must travel between two worlds, trying alone to reconcile their parents’ often strikingly different beliefs, values, and ways of living. Authoritative, beautifully written, and alive with the voices of men and women whose lives were changed by divorce, Marquardt’s book is essential reading for anyone who grew up “between two worlds.” “Makes a persuasive case against the culture of casual divorce.” —Washington Post “A poignant narrative of her own experience . . . Marquardt says she and other young adults who grew up in the divorce explosion of the 1970s and 1980s are still dealing with wounds that they could never talk about with their parents.”—Chicago Tribune


Daughters of Divorce

Daughters of Divorce

Author: Terry Gaspard MSW, LICSW

Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.

Published: 2016-01-19

Total Pages: 298

ISBN-13: 1492620661

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Restore your faith in love and build healthy, successful relationships with this essential guide for every woman haunted by her parents' divorce. Silver Medal Independent Publisher's Award Winner of the Best Book Award in "Self-Help: Relationships" Over 40 percent of Americans ages eighteen to forty are children of divorce. Yet women with divorced parents are more than twice as likely than men to get divorced themselves and struggle in romantic relationships. In this powerful, uplifting guide, mother-daughter team Terry and Tracy draws on thirty years of clinical practice and interviews with over 320 daughters of divorce to help you recognize and overcome the unique emotional issues that parental separation creates so you can build the happy, long-lasting relationships you deserve. Learn how to: Examine your parents' breakup from an adult perspective Heal the wounds of the past Recognize destructive dynamics in intimate relationships and take steps to change them Trust yourself and others by embracing vulnerability Create strong partnerships with their proven Seven Steps to a Successful Relationship Break the divorce legacy once and for all!