Recommended Books

Family Healthy Choices has identified a number of books that may be helpful to parents or children as they go through this transition in the life of their family.

Parents often are looking for suggestions on books to read or share with their children that will help inform, provide alternative ways of thinking about family (or divorcing parent) dynamics, or ways to help talk to their children about separation or divorce.

The following books are recommended as resources. Family Healthy Choices does not directly sell or make a profit from any purchases. All of these books are available at Amazon. If you are interested in purchasing one of the books recommended below, please go to Amazon.com and enter the title or author of the book you are interested in

Recommendations: 33 Books for Parenting Apart:

Anita Robboy, Aftermarriage: The Myth of Divorce

Carla Garrity, Caught in the Middle

Barbara Jo Fiddler, Children Who Resist Post-Separation Parental Contact

Diane Neumann, Choosing a Divorce Mediator

Susan Blyth Boyan, Cooperative Parenting and Divorce

Eileen Mavis Hetherington, Coping with Divorce, Single Parenting, and Remarriage

John Hartson, Creating Effective Parenting Plans

Meg Schneider, Difficult Questions Kids Ask and Are Afraid to Ask About Divorce

Laurene Kransy Brown, Dinosaurs Divorce

Jane Appell, Divorce Doesn’t Have to Be That Way

Richard Warshak, Divorce Poison New and Updated Edition