Growing up divorced [Hardcover]

Linda Bird Francke (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: 1983

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 parents." THE WASHINGTON POST

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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 parents." THE WASHINGTON POST --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 303 pages
• Publisher: Linden Press/Simon & Schuster; 1st edition edition (1983)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0671255169
• ISBN-13: 978-0671255169
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.1 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,229,288 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars For the kids, January 29, 2007

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This review is from: Growing Up Divorced (Mass Market Paperback)

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.