What about the Kids?: Raising Your Children Before, During, and After Divorce

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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 right. 3) The First Year: Maximum turmoil. Setting new routines and maintaining a connection with each child. 4) 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.