Divorced Dad's Survival Book: How To Stay Connected With Your Kids

by David Knox, Kermit Leggett

Overview

The Divorced Dad's Survival Book: How to Stay Connected with Your Kids shows how to navigate the process of getting a divorce so as to minimize the negative impact on one's children. The goal of the book is to show how fathers can use the divorce to improve their relationship with their kids. David Knox, a divorced father of two, presents a book designed to show fathers how to replace the fear of losing their children with insightful knowledge of what the children may be experiencing during the divorce and offers specific suggestions on maintaining and improving relations with them. The father-child relationship cannot only survive but also triumph over divorce through conscious and deliberate planning and execution.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780738203171
Publisher:	Hachette Books
Publication date:	08/18/2000
Edition description:	Revised ed.
Pages:	368
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.75(d)
Lexile:	1240L (what's this?)

About the Author

A marriage and family therapist and Professor of Sociology at East Carolina University, Dr. David Knox is also the author or co-author of ten books including Choices in Relationships and How to Be Your Own Family Therapist. He lives with his second wife and stepdaughter in North Carolina.

Editorial Reviews

A handbook for fathers navigating the fields of divorce. Advice is given on many aspects of the divorce process from the beginnings to remarriage. Chapters discuss children's feelings about divorce, self therapy for the father, handling visitation, dos and don'ts when the children are with the mother, mediation and legal challenges, homosexual fathers, and a chapter on being the new partner written by the author's new wife. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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