The Good Divorce

By Constance Ahrons $11.20

The Good Divorce is based on two decades on research, which suggest that the effects of divorce on children aren’t as damaging as originally suspected.  This book provides the divorce advice needed to learn how to make a smooth and acceptable transition from the nuclear family to the “binuclear”, which includes two households and still focuses on the child of divorce.  With the help of this book you will learn how to preserve your family after your divorce and strengthen your commitment to your children and family.

Parenting After Divorce: A Guide to Resolving

Conflicts and Meeting Your Children's Needs

By Philip Michael Stahl   $15.95

If you are worried about the effect of divorce on your children and need divorce advice on what to do now, Parenting After Divorce can help.  The effects of divorce on children along with the effects of his/her parents continuous arguments will cause the child to suffer.  From this book, you will learn how to act in best interest of your child.  Divorce advice is included from divorcing parents, child custody evaluators, family court counselors, marriage and family therapists, and others interested in the well-being of children.  You will also learn how to avoid the dozen most common mistakes that divorcing parents make, and spare you the emotional and financial damage they can cost you and your children. Also included is a "sample parenting plan" and a special chapter titled "What Your Kids Really Think."

Out of Touch: When Parents and Children

Lose Contact After Divorce

By Geoffrey L. Greif   $33.00

Out of Touch is the study of what happens when parents and children lose contact after a divorce.  This book details and explains the concept of the harshly criticized deadbeat dad and the mother who is branded as emotionally unstable or lacking maternal instincts.  An in depth look will be taken at why a loss of contact can occur and how to prevent it.  Through twenty six interviews of estranged parents and the children who are caught in the middle, the many reasons that keep parents and children apart are explained.  Each interview spans a period of two to ten years, and is thoroughly analyzed and interpreted.  A closer look is taken at many of the reasons why families end up the way do, such as visitation rights, child support, bitter court battles, accusations of sexual abuse, domestic violence, children rejecting a parent, and child kidnapping.  Divorce advice also provides you with the many ways that you become close again, through support systems, communication skills, and mediation.  “Out of Touch is a timely and deeply important book about both the forces that drive parents and children apart and the understanding that can keep them together.”

From Partners to Parents

By June Carbone   $20.50

From Partners to Parents examines the relationship between parents and children.  This book examines the many changes that have taken place over the last twenty years within the family, family research and family laws.  It is stated, according to the model presented in this book, that child custody has become the most important decision that is made during the divorce process.  The decision on child custody has replaced the statement of who is at fault for the breakdown of the marriage.  References are made through economics, law, philosophy, feminism and popular culture, such as Doonesbury and Grace Under Fire.  This all leads to the idea that parents must recreate their relationship with each other in order to fulfill their obligations towards their children.  Divorce advice is presented on “how family change is part of a long-term response to changing industrial organization” and how the effects of divorce can wear on children.