Resources for Parents and Teachers

Divorce

Books:

• Making Divorce Easier on Your Child: 50 Effective Ways to Help Children Adjust

          Written by:  Nicholas Long

            Effective ways to help kids cope during and after.

• What about the Kids? Raising your Child Before, During and After the Divorce.

            Written by:  Judith Wallerstein

            Based on over 30 years of research, it provides parents ways to cope with divorce and  its aftermath.

• Why did you have to get a Divorce? And When can I get a Hamster?: A Guide to Parenting through Divorce

            Written by:  Anthony E. Wolf

            Ways to open communication and keep children how out of the middle of parents issues. Helps to deal with both day to day complications and long term effects of divorce.

• Helping Children Cope with Divorce

            Written by:  Edward Teyber

            This book would be most valuable for parents to read before telling children of impending divorce. Expected reactions of children by age are clearly presented as well as sample scripts for parents to use when discussing divorce.

• What's Going To Happen to Me?

            Written by:  Edna LaShan

            This books helps answer questions children have about their parents divorce, discusses the feelings they have, and suggests new ways of coping with the troubling personal and family problems that often accompany a divorce.

• How It Feels When Parents Divorce

            Written by:  Jill Krementz

            Children up to age sixteen are interviewed about their emotional responses to divorce. Their stories help children understand that their own feelings are normal and appropriate, as they read the personal accounts of children their own age who have experienced similar situations and emotions.

• It's Not the End of the World

            Written by:  Judy Blume

            The book's main character devises plots and employs tricks, but finally realizes that nothing will not stop her parents' divorce. She has a difficult time admitting this, and has to work through her problems.

•  The Boys and Girls Book About Divorce

            Written by: Richard Gardner

            This book provides children with the security of knowing that they are not alone, and     that someone understand what they are experiencing with their parents' divorce.

•  Coping - When Your Family Falls Apart

            Written by:  Diana Booker

            The author stresses throughout the book that a young person can learn to deal with and accept his or her new family situation. This book can be considered a handbook to assist the young adult who is just starting to deal with a parents' divorce.

•  My Parents Are Divorced Too

            Written by:  Bonnie Robson

            Teenagers talk to teenagers about what they encountered during their parents' divorce. The author identifies many of the fears, anxieties, pressures and hostilities that teenagers endure.

•  How To Get It Together When Your Parents Are Coming Apart

            Written by:  Arlene Richards and Irene Willis

Especially written for young adults of this age group, this books gives a sensitive approach to problems that such children tend to endure.\

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