Mom’s House, Dad’s House: A Complete Guide for Parents Who Are Separated, Divorced or Remarried
By Isolina Ricci, Ph.D. Simon & Schuster, November, 1997 (paperback) ("Can children flourish in any custody battle? If their parents read Mom's House, Dad's House, the answer is a resounding "yes". This unique groundbreaking classic, which has become the standard for two generations of parents, is again breaking new ground - revised, updated and expanded - with examples, self-tests, checklists and guidelines. This comprehensive guide looks anew at the common sense advise in the legal, emotional and practical realities of creating two happy and stable homes for your children." - Pub.)
Let's Talk About: Feeling Angry by Joy Berry, illustrated
By Maggie Smith 1995 Scholastic, Inc. (paperback, for children ages 5-8) ("Through interesting stories that kids relate to, Joy Berry's Let's Talk About books explain how to handle even the toughest situations and emotions. Written in a clear, simple style and illustrated with bright, humorous illustrations, the Let's Talk About books are fun, informative and they really work!" - Pub.)
Mom and Dad Don't Live Together Anymore
By Kathy Stinson, illustrated by Nancy Lou Reynolds 1999 Annick Press Ltd. (paperback, for children ages 5-8) ("A little girl is sad that her parents are divorced. Now she lives with her mother and brother during the week, and with her father on weekends. The brief text captures the essence of a child's feelings about divorce - the guilt, and the wishes and fears. It also manages to convey the positive message that parents still love their children after divorce, even if they can't do it living together." - Pub.)
Dinosaurs Divorce: A Guide For Changing Families
By Laurene Krasny Brown, illustrated by Marc Brown 1986 Little, Brown and Company (for children ages 5-8) ("In this book dinosaur characters introduce aspects of divorce such as its causes and effects, living with a single parent, spending holidays in two separate households and adjusting to a stepparent." - Bull Cent Child Books)
Voices of Children of Divorce
By David Royko St. Martin’s Griffin, 2000 (paperback) ("A divorce mediator and clinical psychologist, David Royko tackles divorce from the child's perspective. His interviews with children ages five to 21 on such topics as remarriage, feeling caught in the middle and commitment offer insight into what parents can do to understand their own children's feelings and minimize their suffering." - Barnes & Noble)
Difficult Questions Kids Ask And Are Too Afraid To Ask About Divorce
By Meg F. Schneider, Joan Zuckerberg (contributor) and Joan Offerman-Zuckerberg Simon & Schuster, 1996 (paperback) ("This invaluable book explores the apparent and hidden fears that haunt children as they weather the painful confusion of a divorce. It shows parents how to tell the truth without frightening children, how to strengthen the parent-child relationship and how to build trust." - Pub.)
Why Did You Have To Get a Divorce? And When Can I Get a Hamster?: A Guide To Parenting Through Divorce
By Anthony Wolf, Ph.D. Noonday Press, September, 1998 (paperback) ("In his groundbreaking new book (Wolf) shows parents how to steer children through the pain and complex feelings engendered by divorce; feelings that, if not resolved, can create continuing problems for a child. (This book) is filled with stories that parents will recognize with relief. Positive, at times even funny and, above all, effective this guide will speak directly to divorcing and divorced parents." - Pub.)
Adolescents after Divorce
By Christy M. Buchanan, Eleanor E. MacCoby and Sanford M. Dornbusch Harvard University Press, April, 2000 ("When parents divorce some children falter and others thrive. This book asks why." "(This book) follows teenagers from 1,100 divorce(ed) families to discover what makes the difference. Focusing on a period beginning four years after the divorce the authors have the articulate, often insightful help of their subjects in exploring the altered conditions of their lives." - Pub.)
Co-Parenting After Divorce: How To Raise Happy, Healthy Children In Two-Home Families
By Diana Shulman, Winepress, September, 1997. (paperback) ("Mothers and fathers can say good-bye to the outmoded concept of the "broken home" as the learn to work through expectable adjustments and conflicts. (This book) will help you create an environment that produces well-adjusted, rather than depressed or troubled children." - Pub.)
Good-Bye, Daddy!
By Brigitte Weninger and Alan Marks North-South Books, October, 1997 (paperback, ages 5-8) ("Daddy lives in a different house now and Tom hates it when he leaves. Then Mom gives Tom a teddy bear that tells a story about a little bear who lives in the forest (and) who has problems just like Tom's. A sensitive story about separation and divorce." - Pub.)
At Daddy’s On Saturdays
By Linda Walvoord Girard, Judith Friedman, and Abby Levine. Albert Whitman and Co., December, 1991 (paperback, ages 6-8) ("Katies's daddy moves out of the house when he and her mommy get divorced. Katie is angry, sad, and most of all afraid that her daddy will never come back. But on Saturdays he's there. And Katie comes to understand that even though her parents can't live together anymore, they both still love her and will always be her mommy and daddy." - Pub.)
Can Anyone Fix My Broken Heart: Hope For Children Of Divorce
By June Thomas Crews Winepress Publishing, February, 2000 (paperback, ages 5-7) ("The author draws from her own personal experience to bring hope to children affected by the tragedy of divorce. Illustrator Abigail Garner portrays a young boy walking through his parents' divorce." - Pub.)
When Your Parents Split Up...How to Keep Yourself Together
By Alys Swan-Jackson Price, Susan Klebanoff, Lynn Rosenfield and Joan Shapiro Stern Sloan, October, 1998. (paperback, ages 13-18) ("It's hard enough just being a teenager - but if your parents are getting a divorce, you're probably facing one of the toughest curves life can throw (at) you. What will you tell your friends? Will you have to move? How can you keep up at school when your world is upside down? Can you ever learn to love your stepparents and siblings? This upbeat, upfront guide answers these questions and more with professional advise for coping with change, questionnaires and activities to help you own up to your emotions, listings for 1-800 hotlines and reading references, plus real-life interviews with real-life teens to help you keep yourself together, even if your family is coming apart." -Pub.)
Divorce Happens To the Nicest Kids: A Self Help Book For Kids
By Michael S. Prokop, Alegra House Publishers, September, 1996 (paperback, ages 12 and up)