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What About the Kids? Paperback - 2003
by Wallerstein, Judith S
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From the co-authors of the bestselling "The Unexpected Legacy of Divorce" comes this groundbreaking guide for parents on how to help their children at the time of the breakup and in the many years that follow within the post-divorce and remarried family.
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Details
- Title What About the Kids?
- Author Wallerstein, Judith S
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Pages 400
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Hyperion, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
- Date 2003
- Bookseller's Inventory # 8_26_2023_dgd_1
- ISBN 9780786887514 / 0786887516
- Weight 0.75 lbs (0.34 kg)
- Dimensions 8 x 5.2 x 1.2 in (20.32 x 13.21 x 3.05 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
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Themes
- Topical: Family
- Dewey Decimal Code 306.89
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Summary
The ten chapters in WHAT ABOUT THE KIDS? give detailed scenarios and their alternatives, likely outcomes and surprises. They include: 1) The Break Up: This chapter focuses on the adult in crisis.2) What To Tell the Children: These words will be remembered for a lifetime—how to get them right3) The First Year: Maximum turmoil. Setting new routines and maintaining a connection with each child4) The Dust Settles: The issues that come up in the first decade after divorce. 5) Co-Parenting: How to be good parents while living separate lives.6) Teens in the Post-Divorce Family: Troublesome behavior, morality on trial, your child’s future relationships and much more.7) The Young Adult of Divorce: Spouses and negotiations for college and living expenses, abandonment issues.8) Long Term Changes in Parent/Child Relationships: The members of divorced and remarried families can be both closer and more conflicted than in intact families—what the issues are and how to address them.9) Second Marriages: Preparing a child for new relationships—what are the children most afraid of? How to be a step parent; why second marriages succeed or fail.10) Bridging the Generations: Adult children of divorce and how they relate to their parents—the two way street.
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