Primal Loss
Subtitle: The Now-Adult Children of Divorce Speak
Publisher: LCB Publishing
Published: May 20, 2017
ISBN-13: 9780997989311
Description: Seventy now-adult children of divorce give their candid and often heart-wrenching answers to eight questions (arranged in eight chapters, by question), including: What were the main effects of your parents' divorce on your life? What do you say to those who claim that "children are resilient" and "children are happy when their parents are happy"? What would you like to tell your parents then and now? What do you want adults in our culture to know about divorce? What role has your faith played in your healing? Their simple and poignant responses are difficult to read and yet not without hope. Most of the contributors--women and men, young and old, single and married--have never spoken of the pain and consequences of their parents' divorce until now. They have often never been asked, and they believe that no one really wants to know. Despite vastly different circumstances and details, the similarities in their testimonies are striking; as the reader will discover, the death of a child's family impacts the human heart in universal ways.
Table of contents: title: Dedication; title: Foreword; title: Introduction; title: How to Read This Book; title: The Effects of the Divorce; title: The Difference in How You Felt as Child vs. Adult; title: How Divorce Has Affected Your View of Marriage; title: Are Children Resilient?; title: Speak to Your Parents, Then and Now; title: What Society Should Know; title: The Role of Faith in Healing; title: Speak to Children and Their Divorcing Parents; title: Contributors; title: Stories of Hope; title: What the Church Teaches on Divorce; title: Acknowledgements; title: Appendix / Resources; title: Notes