Family Resources

For Parents: Divorce and Co-Parenting

  • Moms’s House, Dad’s House: Making Two Homes for Your Child by Isolina Ricci, Ph.D
  • BIFF for Co-Parents: Your Guide to Difficult CoParent Texts, Emails and Social Media Posts by Bill Eddy, LCSW, Esq., Annette T. Burns, JD, and Kevin Chafin, LPC
  • CoParenting After Divorce: A GPS for Healthy Kids by Debra Carter, PhD
  • Talking to Children About Divorce: A Parent’s Guide to Healthy Communication at Each
  • Don’t Alienate the Kid: Raising Resilient Children While Avoiding High-Conflict Divorce by Bill Eddy, LCSW, Esq. Stage of Divorce by Jean McBride, M.S., LMFT
  • Raising the Kid You Love With the Ex You Hate by Edward Farber
  • Association of Family and Conciliation Courts Family Resources Guides: https://www.afccnet.org/Resource-Center/Family-Resources

For Kids:

Children Ages 3-5

  • When Mom and Dad Divorce, by Emily Menendez-Aponte
  • My Family’s Changing, by Pat Thomas
  • Fred Stays with Me! by Nancy Coffelt
  • Mom and Dad Break Up, by Joan Singleton Prestine
  • Two Homes, by Claire Masurel
  • Dinosaur’s Divorce, by Laurene Krasny Brown and Marc Brown
  • Seseame Street Workshop: https://sesameworkshop.org/topics/divorce/

Children Ages 5-7

  • Let’s Talk About it: Divorce, by Fred Rogers
  • My Parents are Divorced, My Elbows have Nicknames, and Other Facts About Me, by Bob Cochran
  • I Don’t Want to Talk About It, by Jeanie Franz Ranson
  • When Mom and Dad Separate, by Marge Deegaard
  • Sometimes A Family Has to Split Up, by Jane Werner Watson, Robert E. Switzer, and J. Cotter Hirschberg

Children Ages 8-10

  • All About Divorce, by Mary Blitzer Field
  • It’s Not The End of the World, by Judy Blume
  • Always, Always, by Crescent Dragonwagon
  • The Boys and Girls Book About Divorce, by Richard Gardner
  • Mom’s House, Dad’s House for Kids by Isolina Ricci, Ph.D

Children Ages 11-13

  • For Better or Worse: A Guide to Surviving Divorce for Pre-teens and Their Families, by Janet Bode
  • How it Feels When Parents Divorce, by Jill Krementz
  • My Parents Are Divorced, Too, by Melanie, Annie and Steven Ford
  • Dear Mr. Henshaw, by Beverly Cleary
  • The Divorce Express, by Paula Danziger

Teenagers

  • Divorce Is Not the End of the World: Zoe’s and Evan’s Coping Guide for Kids by Zoe and Evan Stern
  • When Parents Split Up . . . How to Keep Yourself Together, by Alys Swan-Jackson
  • Everything You Need to Know About Your Parents Divorce, by Linda Carlson Johnson
  • Why Me? A Teen Guide to Divorce and Your Feelings, by Rachel Aydt
  • No Easy Answers: A Teen Guide to Why Divorce Happens, by Florence Calhoun

Adult Children

  • Moving Beyond Your Parent’s Divorce, by Mel Krantzler and Patricia Krantzler
  • The Love They Lost: Living with the Legacy of Our Parents’ Divorce, by Stephanie Staal
  • The Unexpected Legacy of Divorce: The 25 Year Landmark Study, by Judith Wallerstein