What about the Kids: Raising Your Children Before, During, and After Divorce by Judith S. Wallerstein, Sandra Blakeslee
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- Pub. Date: March 2004
- 400pp
- Sales Rank: 39,285
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- Pub. Date: March 2004
- Publisher: Hyperion
- Format: Paperback, 400pp
- Sales Rank: 39,285
- ISBN-13: 9780786887514
- ISBN: 0786887516
- Edition Description: Reprint
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Now in paperback-a groundbreaking guide that tells parents 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-from the New York Times bestselling author of The Unexpected Legacy of Divorce.
In the tradition of the best parenting guidebooks comes a new work by the renowned child psychologist Judith Wallerstein on a subject that vexes millions of American moms and dads: How can you genuinely protect your children during and after divorce? Wallerstein answers this important question based on 30 years of in-depth interviews with children of divorce and their parents.
Divorce is not a single event but a lifelong trajectory of changed circumstances that demand a different kind of parenting than we have ever known. In What About the Kids? Wallerstein shows parents how to create a new family with compassion and wisdom. It covers issues that arise at the time of divorce as well as suggestions for talking to your children months and years after the event.
Eminent psychologist Judith S. Wallerstein shares her unique insight and advice in What About the Kids?-the first comprehensive guide to easing the impact of divorce on your children-including:
— The best and worst ages for children to experience their parents' divorce
— Right and wrong ways to explain divorce to your children
— Choosing a custody arrangement that's best for your child
— How to involve the grandparents-a major resource
— Getting the children on your side when you form new relationships
— The positive effects of divorce on children (believe it or not)
— How divorce can actually make you a better parent
— Raising children who grow up able to form lasting relationships
Judith S. Wallerstein is the founder and executive director of the Center for the Family in Transition. She is senior lecturer emerita at the School of Social Welfare at the University of California at Berkeley, where she has taught for 26 years. She is the author, along with Sandra Blakeslee, of the national bestsellers The Good Marriage and Second Chances, and, with Dr. Joan Berlin Kelly, of Surviving the Breakup. She lives in Belvedere, California. Sandra Blakeslee is an award-winning science writer who contributes regularly to the New York Times. She lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
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What about the Kids: Raising Your Children Before, During, and After Divorceby Anonymous
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April 13, 2005: I ordered this book from BN.com in hopes that it would help me, as a soon to be fully divorced father of a 6 month old, find a way to approach a contested custody battle. While there is a LOT of advice in the book about custody in regards to children of all ages, the book is still geared towards mothers. This is very frustrating for me. The author does note that fathers are up and coming as equal and interested parents but then undermines that statement by continuing to refer to contact with the father as 'visits' and discuss sole custody almost entirely as being with the mother. I am not going to deny that this is the age old traditional case but I do deny that this is how it should be. I was hoping, from a book published so recently, for a fresh look at the subject but disappointingly found yet another, albiet less obvious, declaration of the close minded over important role of the mother in a child's life. For child to be healthy and happy, they require the attention, parenting and love of both parents equally. It is the imperative of the Family Court System here in Vermont and should be of anyone who loves their children. If you are looking for another arguement for the power of women over men in child's life, look no further. If you were hoping, like me, to find a balanced discussion on the importance of both parents in such a hard time, you're knocking at the wrong door.
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