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
Geri Fuhrmann, Evaluation for Child Custody
E Mavis Hetherington, For Better or For Worse
Anthony E Wolf, Get Out of My Life, But First Could You Drive Me & Cheryl to the Mall
Neil Kalter, Growing Up With Divorce
M. Gary Neuman, Helping Your Kids Cope with Divorce the Sandcastles Way
E Mavis Hetherington, Impact of Divorce, Single Parenting, and Stepparentoing on Children
Julie Ross, Joint Custody with a Jerk
Benjamin Garber, Keeping Kids Out of the Middle
Nicholas Long, Making Divorce Easier on Your Child: 50 Effective Ways to Help Children Adjust
Donald T. Saposnek, Mediating Child Custody Disputes
Isolina Ricci, Mom’s House, Dad’s House
Leslie Drozd, Parenting Plan & Child Custody Evaluations
Judith Wallerstein, Surviving the Breakup
Elizabeth S. Thayer, The Co-Parenting Survival Guide
Lilian Carson, The Essential Grandparent’s Guide to Divorce
Michael E. Lamb, The Role of the Father in Child Development
Robert E. Emery, The Truth About Children and Divorce
Deborah Tannen, You Just Don’t Understand
Adele Faber, How to Talk So Kids Will Listen, and How to Listen So Kids Will Talk