From a grown up child of divorce – practical guides and a place to rant
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If I had to choose one word to characterize how I viewed my parent’s divorce as a child, I would have called it ‘amicable’. That all too broadly used term assigned to divorces when the couple are not trying to tear each other’s throats out in public. It doesn’t mean the divorce wasn’t painful. It [...]
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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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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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Who let stepdads off the hook?
by Carolyn on August 18, 2009
Stepmoms have an unfortunate image to shake. Good old Walt wasn’t kind to them and he helped stick stepmother-hood with a legacy of connotations like wicked, evil, green eyed and (step) monster. Many stepmothers feel like they’re hated before they even begin. That no matter how loving and attentive they are or could ever be, [...]
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