Vicki Lansky's Divorce Book for Parents: Helping Your Children Cope with Divorce and Its Aftermath

by Vicki Lansky

This essential book features practical information on guiding your children through your divorce. Topics include: how to tell the children, keeping your ex from becoming an ex-parent, handling the holidays, learning "divorce-speak", dating and more.

Genres: Nonfiction

240 pages, Paperback

First published May 26, 1989

Reviews

[Liri]

This is a great tool for understanding the ripple effects of divorce. Also, how to move forward and establish a respect for both partners to prevent severe negative effects of divorce on children. It also refers additional books and charts on model sentences. Worth a read when going through divorce.

[Sarah]

Eh I think this book would have been useful at the start of my divorce. I think this offers some nuggets of good advice (never talk badly about the other parent, encourage your child's relationship with the other parent, etc, etc) but I think it is more helpful to more amiable divorces- not one where the other party is out for blood. I do think it's good at facing reality- which is you really have very little say about what happens at the other parents house.

I also don't love how she suggests that single mom's raising boys may have issues down the road and the boys may be better off with dad as teenagers. I wish she would have talked a little more about this.

[Jack Hansen]

An excellent book that speaks to the people involved in one of life's worst experiences, whether one wants it or not, divorce with children. The decent behavior necessary to go through this heartache is delineated based on cases and decisions made by families and judges. The process is the same for everyone and no one is immune to the human responses exhibited by all those involved.