My boy with two homes
For 16 years, between the time I split up with my son's mother and the time he left school and moved in with me full-time, I was what might be termed a quarter-time dad. Although I was a parent to …
Category: Divorce
Helping stepparents avoid the big mistakes
As anyone who’s been a stepparent can attest, it can be challenging, frustrating, confusing, and rewarding. And all that work deserves a little recognition. So, in honor of National Stepfamily Day (bet you didn’t know it’s today!), we reached out …
Psychiatric experts assess parental alienation
The American Psychiatric Association has a hot potato on its hands as it updates its catalog of mental disorders — whether to include parental alienation, a disputed term conveying how a child's relationship with one estranged parent can be poisoned …
Are You at Risk for Divorce? It’s Not Whether You Fight, But How You Fight That Matters
Newlywed? Congratulations! Hope the wedding was grand. And now...let the fighting begin. Marriage is a lot of things—a source of love, security, the joy of children, but it's also an interpersonal battlefield, and it's not hard to see why: Take …
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What to do when your children reject you after divorce
Few events are as devastating as your children rejecting you after divorce. Sometimes it seems as if nothing you do can get through to your children. The following steps may help guide you through this time. Take care of yourself …
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Dating after divorce has a new rulebook
The dance of dating has rules which provide common expectations between two strangers and limit the number of uncomfortable situations. After all, it can be disastrous when a man and his date have very different expectations about when he will …
10 Reasons To Try A Divorce Mediator
You've decided to seek a divorce. Your nerves are frayed. The in-laws are asked pointed questions. The children are beginning to act up in all-too-transparent ways. To top it off your pleasantness is in the midst of an earthshaking landslide. …
The children who have two homes
It is Friday afternoon and Ned and Nancy Flaherty are being picked up from school by their mother, Kathleen. They look much like any other family. Nancy, 11, is chatting about swimming and Ned, 13, is complaining about homework. But …
How To Make Divorce Less Taxing
Death and taxes may be prominently linked, but many Americans face divorce long before death, and a divorce can be almost as, well, taxing. If you're careful, it's possible to divorce and not face major tax bills. But a surprising …
A Kid's Guide to Divorce
Do you know someone whose parents are divorced? Are your parents divorced? Chances are that you can answer yes to one — or maybe both — of those questions. And you are not alone! Read on to find out what …