Co-Parenting Through Separation and Divorce: Putting Your Children First - Paperback

by Jann Blackstone (Author), David Hill (Author)

Navigate separation and divorce with your children's well-being as your guide.

Worried about how separation or divorce will affect your children? Co-Parenting Through Separation and Divorce provides a step-by-step roadmap to help you work together, putting your children first. Learn how to share news in an age-appropriate way, handle custody, address affairs or abuse, and navigate remarriage and blended families.

• Improve communication and reduce conflict.
• Create stable routines and protect your children's emotional health.
• Build positive co-parenting relationships and navigate legal and financial issues.

Written by experts in pediatrics and family mediation, this essential guide offers practical advice and spot-on tips to help you and your children thrive through adversity. Discover how to make every decision with healthy, happy kids as your ultimate goal.

Author Biography

Jann Blackstone, PsyD, is a retired child custody mediator for the Superior Court of California and the founder of Bonus Families. She is the author of six books on divorce, remarriage, and co-parenting and a nationally syndicated weekly newspaper column, "Ex-etiquette." She currently resides in Phoenix, AZ, and has four children: two biological, two bonus. David L. Hill, MD, FAAP, is a pediatric hospitalist at Goldsboro Pediatrics in North Carolina and an adjunct Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine. He is the author of Dad to Dad: Parenting Like a Pro and associate medical editor of Caring for Your Baby and Young Child: Birth to Age 5. He lives in Wilmington, NC with his wife and has three children and two stepchildren.