The Kids' Book of Divorce: By, for, and about Kids - Hardcover

Fayerweather Street School. Unit

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0866160035 ISBN 13: 9780866160032

Publisher: Viking/Allen Lane, 1984

Synopsis

Twenty children, aged 11 to 14, discuss various aspects of divorce, including custody arrangements, parents' boyfriends and girlfriends, how they were first told about their parents' divorce, and how divorce has changed them.

About this title

From the Inside Flap

ok to address the subject of divorce specifically from a child's point of view, this is the result of two years' work by twenty school children between the ages of eleven and fourteen in an open school in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Fourteen of the children had experienced their parents' divorces; the other six worried constantly that their parents might separate. Realizing that all twenty of them had strong feelings on the subject which they had never been encouraged to express, their classroom teacher, Eric Rofes, began a series of discussion groups and assigned supplementary reading. As the project grew, the children interviewed counselors, judges, other children and members of the clergy. In the book that ultimately emerged, they offer advice on everything from how to avoid taking sides to how to deal with parents' new relationships, stepparents and gay parents. They describe the legal process of divorce in language a child can understand and cover such subjects as handling a new living situation, h

Edition details

• Publisher: Viking/Allen Lane
• Publication date: 1984
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0866160035
• ISBN 13: 9780866160032
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 123
• Editor: Rofes Eric E.