Study Finds Children Aren’t Distressed When Parents Argue and Solve Conflict

Conventional wisdom has always held that children suffer when parents argue, but one study has found that it might actually be good for children to see their parents argue if the disagreement is resolved the right way.
Psychology researchers at the University of Notre Dame devised elaborate experiments to test the effects of marital conflict on […]

January 28, 2010 · Filed Under Children and Divorce, Post-Divorce Parenting, All Child Divorce Articles

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Grandparents’ Role During Divorce

Helping Grandkids Cope When Their Parents Split
Your son or daughter is getting divorced. Your first or second thought has to do with those precious grandchildren. How to support them and maintain your relationship?
Up until grandparents get the news their adult child’s marriage is breaking up, their role was to make the grandchildren happy, to […]

January 28, 2010 · Filed Under Divorce in the Family, All Child Divorce Articles, Grandparents and Divorce

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Activities For Helping Children Deal With Divorce

The following article gives several examples for activities recommended to do with your child to help him or her cope with the divorce. Playing with your child and spending quality time together is key to dealing with this transition in your child’s life, and Earthquake in Zipland is intended for just that.

Going through the process […]

January 13, 2010 · Filed Under Children and Divorce, Post-Divorce Parenting, Explaining Divorce to your Child, All Child Divorce Articles, Single Parenting

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Digital Solutions Developed to Support Divorced Families

More than half of all marriages end in divorce, and the majority of these involve children, according to the National Center for Health Statistics. Conflict between parents, before and after divorce, is associated with feelings of anger, helplessness, loneliness and guilt in children. Now, an online program created by University of Missouri researchers is teaching […]

January 13, 2010 · Filed Under Children and Divorce, Post-Divorce Parenting, All Child Divorce Articles

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Parenting Practices Don’t Suffer During Divorce, According To Large Study

New research is challenging the notion that parents who divorce necessarily exhibit a diminished capacity to parent in the period following divorce. A large, longitudinal study conducted by University of Alberta sociology professor Lisa Strohschein has found that divorce does not change parenting behavior, and that there are actually more similarities than differences in parenting […]

January 13, 2010 · Filed Under Post-Divorce Parenting, All Child Divorce Articles

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