The Parent's Guide to Divorce
For children, a good divorce is better than a bad marriage — but that doesn't make the separation any easier. In The Parent's Guide to Divorce, psychoanalyst and parent guidance expert Erica Komisar draws on more than thirty years of clinical practice, hundreds of case studies, and the latest research to help parents protect what matters most: their child's mental and emotional health.
Erica Komisar walks parents through every stage of the process and covers key issues like:
Talking to children about separation in age-appropriate ways
Holding onto the routines and reassurance kids need when everything else is changing
Building the support systems that carry a family through
How to navigate custody, co-parenting, and eventually, new partners and blended families without losing sight of the child at the center of it all.
Practical, research-grounded, and deeply compassionate, this is the guide Komisar wishes every divorcing parent had in hand: not a book about how to survive a divorce, but how to help a child thrive through one.