Divorcing Children: Children's Experience of Their Parents' Divorce; Contents; List of Tables; List of Figures; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Divorcing Children; Chapter 1 Children and Divorce: Developments in Policy and Practice; Chapter 2 Finding Out; Chapter 3 Telling Others; Chapter 4 Parent -Child Relationships; Chapter 5 Contact; Chapter 6 Change and Adaptation; Chapter 7 Legal Aspects; Chapter 8 Conclusions; Appendix How to Listen to Children; References; Subject Index; Author Index
Summary
Drawing on a three-year multidisciplinary study of the children of divorced parents, the authors, leading academics in their fields, present a much-needed guide to working with children who are experiencing parental separation. Providing an in-depth picture of the effect of divorce on children both during and after the proceedings, the topics discussed include: how parents break the news of divorce to children and how this makes them feel; where children get their ideas about divorce from; how parent-child relationships change after separation; ways in which children adapt and cope with divorc
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 228-233) and indexes
