Caught in the Crossfire

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Do you know- What age spari is the worst time for children to experience a parental divorce? What ages are the worst time for a parent to remarry? Why boys have a tougher time adjusting to divorce than girls? How long it takes for family members to readjust to a post-divorce lifestyle? How divorce hinders children from learning to think analytically? Sixty percent of all divorce cases involve children. Today an estimated one of every six children is a child of divorce. Two myths contribute to the divorce rate: (1) the notion that if adults aren't happy in a marriage, then the children won't be either-with its corollary that children are better off in a divorce if the parents are; and (2) the notion that children are resilient and bounce back from divorce as quickly as they do from a skinned knee. But studies show that fewer than 10 percent of the children feel relief when their parents split; instead they experience an emotional earthquake. Caught in the Crossfire is a book that... Tovább

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Do you know- What age spari is the worst time for children to experience a parental divorce? What ages are the worst time for a parent to remarry? Why boys have a tougher time adjusting to divorce than girls? How long it takes for family members to readjust to a post-divorce lifestyle? How divorce hinders children from learning to think analytically? Sixty percent of all divorce cases involve children. Today an estimated one of every six children is a child of divorce. Two myths contribute to the divorce rate: (1) the notion that if adults aren't happy in a marriage, then the children won't be either-with its corollary that children are better off in a divorce if the parents are; and (2) the notion that children are resilient and bounce back from divorce as quickly as they do from a skinned knee. But studies show that fewer than 10 percent of the children feel relief when their parents split; instead they experience an emotional earthquake. Caught in the Crossfire is a book that helps parents, counselors, and teachers understand what that earthquake is like. Through careful research and the mouths of children themselves, author Debbie Barr provides a compassionate and searching look at what divorce really means to children and how we can help them through the trauma. The book includes a read-aloud story that will help communicate vitai truths to the children of divorce. Debbie Barr is a free-lance writer living in WinstonSalem, North Carolina. A wife and mother, she holds a journalism degreefrom the Pennsylvania State University and has been published in numerous Christian periodicals. Vissza