From a grown up child of divorce – practical guides and a place to rant
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You can tell me anything. Really, you can. And chances are I won’t tell anyone. I am a secret keeper and even when you don’t expect me to keep your secrets, I will. My first lesson in secret keeping was taught by a pair of socks. No, that isn’t a typographical error. My socks taught [...]
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Every family has a system. A set of rules and expectations with regards to communicating and interacting with each other. And every family is different. There are general types of family systems but families are like snowflakes. Each one varying slightly or even greatly from another. And if that weren’t specific enough, each pair of [...]
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Adolescent years are a challenge. For everyone involved. Young individuals searching, yearning for their independence though not yet prepared to manage the cost/benefit scales of life. Crazed parents hurt by their child’s sudden rebuttals and scared by both their loss of control and their child’s inability to make consistent good choices. These years are typically [...]
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Co-parenting is all the rage for divorced parents. With Bruce Willis and Demi Moore as it’s poster children; it calls for parents to work together in the same manner they would had they remained married with respect to their parenting roles. And as difficult as it must be, the experts are unanimous in their agreement [...]
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Equal physical custody? You try it.
by Carolyn on July 21, 2009
I started a bit of a kerfuffle on another site the other day and I decided to write an opinion piece to reflect it. I didn’t think I would be writing these, but the topic is interesting and I’d love to hear other people’s perspectives: Child custody. There aren’t many topics as polarizing as this [...]
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