From the writer from the bestselling YOUR CHILD & Child comes a book full ofcompletely practical, comprehensively researched information and advice on howyou can do what is best for your son or daughter if you are going through a separationor divorce.

Using the latest scientific study in childdevelopment, Penelope Leach covers the various ramifications of divorce on childrenin five phases of life-infants, toddlers/preschoolers, primary classes children,teenagers, college students/young adults-many of whom about When Parents Portion: How Parents MIGHT HELP Their Children Deal with Separation and Divorce are far more deeply affectedthan previously thought. She explains latest studies that overturn many commonassumptions and that show, for example, how many regular custody arrangementsfor very young children are harmful to children’s attachment to their parentsand therefore to their brain development. There is certainly evidence to suggest that thepractice of having infants and toddlers spend regular overnights with noncustodialparents could be damaging, and the practice of dividing children’s time equallybetween the parents can be seldom best for the kids.

Leach’s guidance is meticulously considered andexhaustive, covering everything from gain access to, guardianship, and financial and legalconsiderations to managing separate models of technology in two houses, and sheincludes the voices of both parents and children to illustrate her points. Sheexplains why “shared parenting” is the ideal method to co-parent after adivorce and delineates ways to bring this out. And throughout, she makes clearthat, most importantly in any parting or divorce, both parents must puttheir relationship to their kids and responsiveness to their demands ahead oftheir feelings about each other.