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Useful reading for Separating Parents

  1. Breaking Up without Falling Apart: The Essential Guide to Separation and Divorce in Scotland by Anne Hall Dick, 2011. A really useful, readable guide about the process of separating in Scotland.

  2. Getting Your Children Through Divorce: A Parent’s Guide to Separation by Anne Hooper, 2005.

    A classic UK book offering advice, explanations, strategies and insights.

  3. Helping Children Cope with Divorce by Teyber, 2001

    Advice for separating parents on what they can do to help their children successfully adjust to separation.

  4. How to Talk so Kids will Listen and Listen so Kids will Talk by Faber & Mazlish, 2001

    How to build successful relationships with children within families, and how to manage family conflicts effectively.

  5. Mom's House, Dad’s House by Isolina Ricci, 1997

    This book focuses on the experience of parents going through the divorce process, using helpful exercises and self-assessments.

  6. Parenting Apart: How Separated and Divorced Parents can raise Happy and Secure Kids by Christina McGhee, 2011.

    Practical advice on how to help children adjust and thrive during and after separation and divorce by a renowned US Divorce coach.

  7. The Guide for Separated Parents: Putting Children First by Karen & Nick Woodall, 2009

    A practical and reassuring guide for separating parents on how to work towards co-operative parenting, written by UK authors.

  8. The Truth about Children and Divorce by Robert Emery, 2006

    This book combines research and practical experience to help parents work through the practicalities and feelings that arise through separation

Useful books for Children

  1. It's Not Your Fault, Koko Bear by Vicki Lansky, 1998

    This is a 'read together' book for parents and young children (3 to 7 years) during divorce that helps to explain words and feelings.

  2. Dinosaur's Divorce by Marc Brown and Laurie Krasny Brown, 1988

    For children aged 4 to 8 years, this book uses cartoon dinosaur characters to cover topics such as why parents divorce, what will happen to me, living in two homes.

  3. The Huge Bag of Worries by Ironside and Rodgers, 2011

    A popular story book for younger children about a little girl who finds she is carrying an ever growing 'bag of worries'. She finds there are lots of different ways of dealing with or sharing worries.

  4. Two of Everything by Babette Cole, 2000

  5. This is a ‘funny’ book for children, from 6 to 12 years, that tells the story of parents being ‘unmarried’.

  6. When Mom and Dad Separate by Marge Heegaard, 1991

    A workbook for children (5 to 12 years) to work out their feelings about separation and divorce.

  7. The Suitcase Kid by Jacqueline Wilson, 2006

    This is a well told story about a girl and her rabbit adjusting to life being a kid with divorced parents. For ages 8 to teens.

  8. It’s an Aardvark eat Turtle World by Paula Danzinger, 2007

    An entertaining read about two teenagers who were best friends and become sisters after their parents fall in love, for children 10 to 12 years.

  9. Mom's House, Dad's House for Kids by Isolina Ricci, 2006

    Designed for children 10 years and older, this book helps children to learn about how their family is changing and develop important life skills.

  10. It’s not the End of the World by Judy Blume, 2011

    This is a story about divorce and its impact on family life, from a teenage perspective. Written with insight, sensitivity and honesty for ages 10 to teens.

  11. What in the World Do You Do When Your Parents Divorce?: A Survival Guide for Kids by Kent Winchester and Roberta Beyer, 2002. Written to and for kids, in a simple question-and-answer format, this book is a valuable tool for helping children cope with separation

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