title: Co-Parenting After Divorce: How to Raise Happy, Healthy Children in Two-Home Families
author: Diana Shulman
description: Since the divorce procedure has become, legally speaking, nearly as innocuous as apple pie in America, the task has fallen to psychologists such as Shulman to provide both adults and children with the tools to get on with their lives. In this book, devoted to the immense parenting problems of divorce, no space is wasted with esoteric or gushy narrative; Shulman writes in the style of a how-to manual. The book nonetheless achieves its stated goal of being "an unintimidating and practical guide to help with the adjustment process." From the basics of "Creating a Co-Parenting Plan" to the specifics of handling the problems of children from infancy on up to age 18 in dealing with the divorce milieu, Shulman provides practical, straightforward capsules often broken down into useful steps. Though this is most suitable for divorced parents as a "ready reference" guide for thinking quickly on one's feet, public libraries would certainly do patrons a service by adding it to their collections.?David M. Turkalo, Suffolk Univ. Law Sch. Lib., Boston<BR>Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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  1)  Introduction 
  	
  ‘Divorce’,	 ‘Separation’,	 these	 are	 tough	 decisions	 made	 by	 the	 
  parents	 and	 often	 lead	 to	 significant	 changes	 in	 one’s	 life.	 Whilst	 the	 
  parents	 are	 adjusting	 themselves	 to	 their	 new	 lives,	 their	 children	 will	 
  also	 have	 different	 emotion	 and	 behavioural	 reaction	 as	 a	 response	 to	 
  this	 change.	 Although	 you	 may	 be	 eager	 to	 move	 on	 and	 cut	 off	 any	 
  connections	 with	 one	 another,	 in	 the	 best	 interests	 of	 the	 children,	 
  both	 parents	 should	 work	 together	 and	 share	 responsibilities 	 to 	
  contribute	 to	 the	 development	 of	 the	 children.	 They	 should	 work	 out	 
  the	 caring	 arrangement	 that	 is	 good	 to	 the	 children	 and	 manage	 their	 
  and	 the	 children’s	 emotion.	 The	 efforts	 from	 both	 parents	 will	 cushion	 
  the	 negative	 impacts	 of	 this	 separation	 and	 also	 provide	 the	 children	 
  a	 stable	 environment 	to 	grow. 		In 	the