Divorce
- A Kid’s Guide to Divorce
Answers children’s most common concerns and questions about divorce and offers suggestions for handling feelings.
Canadian Parents
Raising Your Children Before, During, and After Divorce
Children and Divorce
American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy outlines how to help your child during the divorce and lists some of the books and other resources available for divorcing parents and children.
Children and Separation / Divorce
Although many children gradually accept the situation and eventually recover their equilibrium, parents should be aware of short- and long-term repercussions felt by most children of divorce.
Cooperative Parenting & Divorce
Video based educational program created to give divorced parents the skills to become effective co-parents for the sake of their children.
Coping with Separation & Divorce: A Parenting Seminar
Divorce and other family transitions are recognized as very stressful. This four-hour educational program focuses on the needs of children during such times of stress.
Family Tapestries
Teens and Divorce: What Hurts and What Helps?
Focus on Kids: The Effects of Divorce on Children
Parents who are going through divorce often believe it is in the best interest of the children to shield them from the stress of the situation. But regardless of their parents' good intentions, children often find themselves caught in an emotional whirlpool during these times. Instead of protection, they need support and reassurance. This guide will help you understand the stress that children often feel when their parents divorce.
Helping Children Understand Divorce
The purpose of this guide is to help you understand the thoughts and feelings that children may have when their parents decide to divorce and to provide some tips for talking with children about divorce.
Helping Your Child Through a Divorce from KidsHealth
Includes information on how to tell a child, different reactions according to child’s age, adjusting to living arrangements, and dealing with the aftermath of divorce.
How To Go To Visitation Without Throwing-Up
A book for young children about coping with regular visitation to separate parents, especially long-distance visitation.
It's not your fault
Information for parents to help your child through a divorce and to help children realize it's not their fault.
Kids In the Middle
Lists Children's Bill of Rights and things that bug kids in a divorce.
Kids Turn
Helping kids learn about divorce.
Kids Turn Central
Site providing numerous links for children and parents. There are sections on art activities, books, how to talk to parents, what to do with anger, coping with parental arguments, and other similar topics to help children feel less alone and more capable of handling divorce.
kids4kids.com
Divorce chatroom for teen-age children of divorce.
MY LONG-DISTANCE LIFE
Article written by NICK SHEFF, a junior at Marin Academy High School in San Rafael, Calif
Overcoming Divorce Trauma
Foolproof Strategies for Maintaining Your Child's Equilibrium
Parenting through Separation and Divorce
North Dakota State University presents clear, straightforward information about co-parenting and provides guidelines for putting children first.
The Effects of Divorce on Children and How to Cope: Danger Signs
Understanding a little about what children go through when their parents divorce, parents should watch for some common signs that their children are not effectively handling the divorce process.
University of Minnesota
Stages of Grief and Loss for Children Going Through Divorce
Why Children are Impacted by Divorce
There have been many empirical studies focusing on the effects of divorce on children. Some of the common findings among all of these studies are detailed in this article.
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