Title: What about the kids?
First published: 2003
Description: 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 right3) The First Year: Maximum turmoil. Setting new routines and maintaining a connection with each child4)  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.
Subjects: Family & Relationships, Nonfiction, Children of divorced parents, Life skills guides, Divorced parents, Parenting, Divorce, Child rearing