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How Mothers and Fathers Can Help Their Children Deal with Separation and Divorce
Knopf
May 2015
On Sale: May 12, 2015
272 pages
ISBN: 110187404X
EAN: 9781101874042
Kindle: B00N6PEPUM
Hardcover / e-Book
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Self-Help | Non-Fiction
From the acclaimed, best-selling author of Your Baby
& Child and one of the world’s leading experts on
child development and parenting, a practical,
comprehensively researched guide to doing the best for
your child during and after separation or divorce.
Recent research clarifies why parents—fathers as
much as mothers—are so crucial to children of all ages and
how their separation can turn children’s lives upside
down. Drawing on the latest scientific findings, as
well as on her many years of professional and personal
work with children, Penelope Leach describes how
parents can minimize the impact of separation and
divorce on children through the six stages of a child’s
life, from infancy to adulthood. She helps parents find ways
to continue being fathers and mothers when they are no
longer husbands and wives. She explains recent studies that
overturn numerous common assumptions, revealing, for
example, that many standard custody arrangements can
undermine young children’s attachment to parents and in the
case of infants even negatively affect their brain
development; that unless infants and toddlers are already
closely attached to both parents, regular overnights with
the noncustodial parent may be damaging; and that dividing a
child’s time equally between the parents may be “fair” to
them but seldom is best for the child. And, throughout,
Leach grounds her approach with anecdotal evidence presented
in the voices of children and parents
themselves.
Leach’s child-centered advice, profoundly
thoughtful and thorough, tackles the issues from every
angle—emotional, scientific, psychological, practical,
legal—covering everything from access, custody, and
financial considerations to managing separate sets of
technology in two houses. Above all she is insistent that
for the sake of their future development, the needs of
children must be put first. She is persuasively clear that
mutual parenting, while seldom easy, is the best way
forward for both the parents and the children.
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