Growing Up Divorced

by Linda Bird Francke

Book Overview

Long after the pain of your divorce has faded, your children may have problems you never imagined. This warm, authoritative handbook for divorced and divorcing parents by a divorced mother of three, offers a complete description of the crises facing "divorced children" and focuses on relieving distress before it becomes permanent damage. "So sensibly and warmly written that it should be accessible to even the most defensive or frightened divorced...

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0449205703
• ISBN13: 9780449205709
• Release Date: May 1984
• Publisher: Fawcett Books
• Length: 115 Pages
• Weight: 0.37 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 4.2" x 6.9"

Customer Reviews

For the kids

I am a school psychologist and have counseled students from K-12 for over 20 years. The majority come from families impacted by the challenges of divorce. There are other books on this topic on my shelves, but Growing Up Divorced is the one I've referred to most frequently. In my opinion, the typical divorced parent's advice manual glosses over the very real and persistent difficulties encountered nearly universally by their children. Francke presents the truth - that divorce is something that parents, not their children, choose, and does so with compassion and sensitivity. If I were a parent, divorced or merely contemplating it, I would buy and use this book so that I could better understand what was going on with my kids and make informed choices about doing my best for them.