Children and Divorce
16 Articles & Excerpts
Breaking Up is Hard on More Than Two
by Paul Mauchline
Whether you have lived together for two years, or been married for fifteen, your breakup affects friends, family, and, most importantly, children if you have them. There has been so much focus in the media on the question, Are you the one for me?
Secret One: Put the marriage first
 Remarried with Children: Ten Secrets for Successfully Blending and Extending Your Family
by Barbara LeBey
As a more mature person, you can do it right this time. You are en- titled to another chance at happiness, but this time the love that you start your marriage with has to be big enough and wise enough to embrace a ready-made family.
Child Support vs. Spousal Support: Tax Benefits and Tax Traps
by Jerry Style, CFP, CDP
Support payments pursuant to divorce receive different tax treatment depending upon whether they are characterized as child support or spousal support (referred to also as maintenance or alimony). This is a potential tax planning opportunity, but there ar
The Youngest Victims of Divorce - Tips for Making Divorce Less Painful for Children
by EqualityinMarriage.org
Divorce is rarely a pleasant experience - a trying mix of emotions and financial/legal issues that is often tainted by hostility and regret. Children become an additional complication to this process with issues of custody and visitation.
Children and Divorce
by The American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
One out of every two marriages today ends in divorce and many divorcing families include children. Parents who are getting a divorce are frequently worried about the effect the divorce will have on their children. During this difficult period, parents may
Divorce and Separation
 In the Best Interest of the Child: How to Protect Your Child from the Pain of Your Divorce
by Stanton E. Samenow, Ph.D.
During warfare over child custody, were you to ask the parents about their motives, each would contend that he or she is acting in their child's best interest. This assertion likely would be followed by withering criticism of the other parent.
My Father Is Making an Effort in Trying To Come Back Into My Life
by Ellen Kreidman, Ph.D
I believe in forgiveness. Yes he did abandon me when I was young (with no child support as my mom and dad say), but he is making an effort in trying to come back into my life. I love my current dad and I don
The Reluctant Heart
 The Love They Lost : Living with the Legacy of Our Parents' Divorce
by Stephanie Staal
A couple of years ago, my mother went to the twenty-five-year reunion of her graduate school class, held on the very same university campus where she and my father first met. She tells me how, as she roamed through the reception, weaving among all those
Growing Up Divorced
 Between Two Worlds: The Inner Lives of Children of Divorce
by Elizabeth Marquardt
A compelling new study reveals the true effects of divorce. An astonishing one quarter of adults between the ages of eighteen and thirty-five have grown up in divorced families. Now, as this generation comes of age, Between Two Worlds will speak to them
The Offspring
by EqualityinMarriage.org
The Offspring. It is such an emotionless phrase, like the children are property or something you display on a table in your foyer. Often in divorce younger children do become nothing more than a bartering tool and their well being gets lost in the game
Author Q&A
The Love They Lost : Living with the Legacy of Our Parents' Divorce
by Stephanie Staal
A Conversation with Stephanie Staal. Q: Why did you write THE LOVE THEY LOST? A: It started as a personal exploration. For years, I didn't talk about my parents' divorce with anyone ... when casual acquaintances asked about my family, I would often use
Putting Children First When a Marriage Comes Apart
 The Truth About Children and Divorce: Dealing with the Emotions So You and Your Children Can Thrive
by Robert Emery, Ph.D.
Sure, with divorce or the separation of their unmarried parents a part of the lives of close to half of children today, parents and experts alike want to put children first, at least in theory.
Parenting Through Divorce
The Truth About Children and Divorce: Dealing with the Emotions So You and Your Children Can Thrive
by Robert Emery, Ph.D.
Parents have many specific tasks to accomplish in divorce: working through grief, reducing conflict, renegotiating their relationship, establishing a working coparenting relationship, resolving all legal issues, learning how to parent effectively on their
Divorce Counseling May Prevent Teen Substance Abuse
by SAMHSA
Most children of divorced parents in the United States (40 percent of all children) adjust well to their parents' split. But 20 to 25 percent of children have trouble dealing with their parents' divorce.
Women's Wild Oats: Essays on the Re-fixing of Moral Standards
by C. Gasquoine Hartley
Circumstances, at different times, have made me think and care very deeply about the injustice suffered by children born outside the protection of legal marriage; it was, indeed, when I was still young - young in experience and very ignorant of life
Raising Your Child in Two Different Homes
by SAMHSA
About 50 percent of marriages end in divorce. Divorce is never easy for parents or for children. Children may feel like the divorce is somehow their fault. Parents try to help children adjust to the breakup of their home while at the same time possibly
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