A comprehensive guide helping families overcome the trauma of divorce.

For many years, Growing Up With Divorce has offered divorced parents transformative insight, solace, and practical guidance on how to help their children cope with the stresses caused by marital separation. Every child is unique, yet there are certain common reactions to the stresses of divorce--anger, a sense of divided loyalties, lasting intimacy issues. Dr. Neil Kalter explains that, for children, divorce is not a single event but is comprised of "a series of events that occur over many years." Identifying three stages of divorce, Dr. Kalter cites the particular struggles associated with each stage and explains how gender as well as cognitive, emotional, and social development also affect how children react.

Dispensing sage advice on everything from understanding and minimizing the anxieties that underlie various troublesome behaviors to smoothing out your child's transitions between her two households to incorporating a new spouse into your family, Dr. Kalter gives parents and the professionals who treat divorced families an indispensable guide to navigating the difficulties of divorce.

Author: Neil Kalter
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Free Press
Published: 01/01/2006
Pages: 432
Weight: 1.25lbs
Size: 8.52h x 5.52w x 1.09d
ISBN: 9780743280853
Reissue Edition

About the Author
Neil Kalter was a professor and author of Growing Up with Divorce: Help Your Child Avoid Immediate and Later Emotional Problems.