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Parenting After Divorce
When parents divorce, it can be devastating for the children. How do you talk to your children about it? What can you do to make it easier on them? We cover these questions and more this week as we talk with Kirsten who experienced divorce as a child and is a divorced parent herself.
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Steve Carpenter
Burton, it’s good to be back on your program. Each week you’ve tackled a difficult issue and today is no different.
Speaking from experience, parenting after divorce is challenging. But I’m not here to talk about myself or parenting, rather I want to recommend a powerful film about marriage called Fireproof. It’s a story about Captain Caleb Holt, a New York firefighter, who is struggling in a failing marriage.
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VIDEO: Fireproof. Reviewed in today’s program, this movie is about a husband and wife who work hard to rescue their marriage using “The Love Dare” experiment.
BOOKS: The Love Dare by Steven Kendrick and Alex Kendrick
Katelyn’s Affection by Kirsten L. Klaasen A book for teens that deals with the real issues facing kids today, including divorce, relationships, religion, and date abuse.
Related Resources
WEBSITES
Parenting after Divorce A Colorado-based non-profit whose mission is to provide the best in co-parent education to divorcing, divorced and never-married parents living apart.
Coparenting101.org A social networking site to discuss issues around co-parenting after divorce.
BOOKS
The Truth about Children & Divorce: Dealing with the Emotions so You and Your Children can Thrive, Robert E. Emery
Difficult Questions Kids Ask (and are afraid to ask) About Divorce, Meg Schneider
Two Homes, Claire Masurel. A book for children on divorcing parents
The Co-Parenting Survival Guide, Elizabeth Thayer
Burton's Blog
Nurturing Children Through a Divorce
Burton Buller
I was surfing the web recently doing research at .org and .gov sites for information on issues family face today. One really stuck with me. Children losing a parent to divorce experience more trauma than losing a parent through death.
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Fred was a state trooper who had a wife, a daughter, and what looked to be a picture perfect life. Then one day his teenage daughter took her own life and it changed everything. Fred and his wife not only mourned their loss, but they also took action in founding a suicide prevention organization that handled more than 13,000 call a year.
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