Resources: Books
- Growing Up Divorced, by Linda Bird Franke
- Publisher: New York: Simon & Schuster; 1983; all ages
- Describes the various stages children and teens go through in reaction to a parents' divorce.
- Growing Up With Divorce: Helping Your Child Avoid Immediate and Later Emotional Problems, by Neil Kalter
- Publisher: Ballantine Books, 1990
- A guidebook for divorcing parents to help them understand and comfort their children.
- Helping Your Child Survive Divorce, by Dr. Mary Ann Shaw
- Publisher: Carol Publishing Company; 1997
- Provides guidance and advice for parents to help their children cope with issues of divorce. The book furnishes helpful insights from children of all ages who have gone through the breakup of their parents' marriages.
- I Wish I Had My Father, by Norma Simon
- Publisher: Albert Whitman; 1983; all ages
- For children who struggle with the feelings of rejection and sadness caused by a parent who has left them.
- Mom's House, Dad's House: Making Two Homes For Your Child, by Isolina Ricci, Ph.D.
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster; 1997
- Advice on the legal, emotional, and practical realities of creating two happy and stable homes for your children.
- Second Chances: Men, Women and Children A Decade After Divorce, by Judith S. Wallerstein and Sandra Blakeslee
- Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company; 1996
- An account of the long-term emotional, economic, and psychological effects of divorce on adults and children.
- The Day The Loving Stopped, by Peter Mayle
- Publisher: New York: MacMillan; 1980; teens
- The author discusses childhood experiences.
- In The Best Interests Of The Child, by Joseph Goldstein, Anna Freud, Albert J. Solnit, and Sonja Goldstein
- Publisher: The Free Press; 1986
- Underlying study of children's interests relative to divorce.
- Beyond The Best Interests Of The Child, by Joseph Goldstein, Anna Freud, and Albert J. Solnit
- Publisher: The Free Press; 1979
- Underlying study of children's interests relative to divorce.