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The Impact of Divorce on Young Children and Adolescents
Carl E Pickhardt Ph.D., December 19, 2011, Psychology Today. Young children and adolescents can respond differently to divorce In response to my blog about single parenting adolescents, I received this email request: "I was wondering if you could address the effects...
Mom and Dad Have Something to Tell You: Six Tips for Talking to Kids About Divorce
By Kevin D. Arnold, Ph.D., A.B.P.P,Posted May 29, 2011, Psychology Today. If you are contemplating divorce, you might wonder how to tell the children. Science tells us little about how to best tell children that parents will divorce. A few studies focus on how...
This Divorce Arrangement Stresses Kids Out Most
Mandy Oaklander, April 27, 2015, TIME Regarding the wellbeing of kids with divorced parents, the debate over what kind of custody arrangement is best rages on. But a new study, published Monday in the Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health, suggests that...
Gay Divorce: How the Collaborative Family Law Model Can Help Parting LGBT Couples
By Angie Bain, Family lawyer and partner, GoransonBain, Huffington Post, March 28, 2012. One of the many unjust results of a state legal system that refuses to recognize and validate a same-sex marriage or civil union is the absence of a binding structure and system...
How You Can Restructure Your Family Without Destroying It
Ann Levin, The Legal Intelligencer, January 19, 2016. Divorce is a reality for many people and impacts more than the couple when children are involved. Mothers and fathers stress over the impact that a decision to divorce will have on their children. Often the...
Why You Should Choose Collaborative Law For Your Divorce
Posted on Norristown Family Law Blog On behalf of Law Offices of Maribeth Blessing, LLC The traditional legal system is designed to be adversarial – there are two sides fighting against each other, trying to “win.” While this system may work for many legal issues, it...
The Stepfather and the Wedding: A Family’s Viral Story Still Hits Home
By Jane Gordon Julien, OCT. 9, 2015, New York Times. Brittany Peck wasn’t planning on people around the world sharing in her wedding day. But that was before a photographer captured the moment on Sept. 26, when her father reached for the hand of her stepfather to...
From Divorce, a Fractured Beauty
By LARA BAZELON, SEPT. 24, 2015, New York Times Happy families are not all alike. Picture this one. A mother and father sit on a beach on the Fourth of July with their two children, a boy, 6, and a girl, 4. The parents are just on the other side of 40, still...
Uncontested Divorce Can Improve a Relationship
Wendy Paris, Splitopia, Psychology Today, April 7, 2015 When filing for divorce teaches new skills When we first started discussing divorce, I called a few lawyers, but didn’t hire anyone. I was convinced by what I had heard that divorce lawyers are sharks, circling...
8 Guidelines for a Friendly Divorce
Susan Heitler Ph.D., Psychology Today, Posted Mar 08, 2012 I am an advocate of marriage. My work as a therapist, my publications and my collaborative dialogue skill-building website generally aim to help spouses grow the kind of relationship they had in mind when they...