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What Parents Need to Know, What Legal Professionals Need to Tell, What Judges Should Consider
The kinds of problems that are most commonly seen in children of divorce include twice as many teenage births, academic and achievement difficulties, acting-out behaviors, and internalizing symptoms such as increased anxiety and depression. A SYNOPSIS OF CURRENT RESEARCH ON RISK AND RESILIENCY IN CHILDREN OF DIVORCE Divorce happens, and everyone seems to know that […]
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A Year of Firsts
Embarking on your new life after divorce involves doing things you’ve done many times before, but for the ‘first’ time as a divorced person. Included are, holidays, school functions, parenting and co-parenting, socializing as single person, managing a household by yourself, the list goes on. The reality is, that you are changed as a result […]
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I Don’t Want to Get Divorced, Daddy.
In the moments when you feel you can connect, you are doing homework with your children, playing video games together, telling them to brush their teeth, putting them to bed, kissing them good-night. It may be in one such moment that your little one whispers softly, “I don’t want to get divorced, daddy”. KEEPING FATHERS […]
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Collaborative Divorce in New York State: Keeping Both Parents Involved
You’ve been walking around like a zombie with your heart blown out. You move about your days in a fog, wondering how your life spiraled out of control. The blow-out you feel comes from the news that you are getting divorced. In your despair you may stay at work later, avoiding the scene of your […]
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Parenting Through Divorce
The most important indicator of either psychological health or damage in children from divorced families is the post-divorce relationship of their parents. If parents can manage their relationship in a cordial and business-like manner, children do as well as those from intact families. If parents can’t make this adjustment, continuing to argue and disparage each […]
