WHAT ABOUT THE KIDS?
Subtitle: RAISING YOUR CHILDREN BEFORE, DURING, AND AFTER DIVORCE
Publisher: Hyperion
Published: March 17, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 400
ISBN-13: 9780786887514
Subjects: Social Institutions; Family & Relationships; Family / Parenting / Childbirth; Family/Marriage; Divorce & Separation; Parenting - General; Family & Relationships / Divorce; Parenting - Child Rearing
First sentence: After Hurricane Andrew slammed into the Florida coast in 1992, killing twenty-six people and causing more than $30 billion in property damage, stunned residents were slow to pick up the pieces.
Table of contents: title: pt. 1. The breakup -- 1. Take care of yourself -- 2. Telling the children -- 3. The developmental ladder -- 4. Zero to three -- 5. Three-, four-, and five-year-olds -- 6. Six-, seven-, and eight-year-olds -- 7. Nine- and ten-year-olds -- 8. Eleven-, twelve-, and thirteen-year-olds -- 9. Fourteen-, fifteen-, sixteen-, and seventeen-year-olds -- 10. College-age children -- 11. Vulnerable children -- 12. What is the "best" time to divorce? -- 13. Setting routines and structure -- 14. Supporting the new family -- pt. 2. Parent-to-parent -- 15. A new kind of parent -- 16. You and the law -- 17. Laying the foundation for custody and coparenting -- 18. Custody -- 19. HIgh-conflict divorce -- 20. How to choose the right custody for your child -- pt. 3. The post-divorce family -- 21. Take another close look at your children and at yourself -- 22. The overburdened child -- 23. Parent-child alignments -- 24. A new kind of teenager -- 25. A new kind of father -- 26. A new kind of mother -- pt. 4. Second marriage -- 27. Dating and sex -- 28. Remarriage -- 29. Insiders and the remarried family -- 30. Stepparents -- 31. Blending two families -- 32. Holidays and special occasions -- pt. 5. Conversations for a lifetime -- 33. How to protect children of divorce in young adulthood.