children of divorced parents

A discussion of divorce and blended families, explaining what they are, providing coping strategies for living with a stepparent and stepsiblings, and encouraging young people to seek help from a trusted adult.

Twin girls Sarit and Allie have always been coached in basketball by their father, but now that their parents are divorced and he has moved away, Sarit is unhappy playing on the school team, and resentful that her sister still enjoys the game.

Uses case studies, interview excerpts, and observations to describe the effects of divorce on men, women, boys, and girls, and examines topics that include factors that help or hinder adjustment, the impact of parental conflict on children, strategies used by divorced families to contain conflict, and more.

A little girl explains how she came to terms with her parents' divorce.

Presents a collection of connected short stories that follows a young girl, Ann Ransom, from her childhood and adolescence to adulthood.

Thirteen-year-old Conrad decides to pay a surprise visit to his divorced parents in New York and comes face to face with bitter reality. The friendship of an emotionally troubled girl helps to sustain him through the crisis.

Describes what happens when parents divorce, including what changes may occur within a family, and how a child will be legally and emotionally affected by the divorce.

A guide for teenagers to view divorce as the beginning of a different kind of family life, to understand what happens to parents in their lives, and to understand the feelings of everyone involved.

As a boy grows into manhood, he begins to realize just how much his father has influenced his life, and he is not sure if it is a positive influence or not.