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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...