Build a Co-parenting Team: After Divorce or Remarriage

by Peter K. Gerlach

Overview

Literature suggests that over 60% of American stepfamilies divorce, psychologically or legally. This translates into millions of anguished, traumatized adults and kids, who form an invisible subculture on our continent. There seem to be five combined reasons for this tragic, unremarked epidemic: _ co-parents' psychological wounds from low-nurturance childhoods, _ blocked grief, _ unawareness of key stepfamily realities and relationship skills, _ courtship neediness and idealism, and _ little qualified community and media help.

This is a guidebook for divorced parents, stepfamily co-parents, and their supporters. It builds on foundation ideas described in earlier volumes to overcome seven core barriers to the co-parenting teamwork their minor kids desperately need. This modular book will be most helpful to readers who have studied the five prior volumes in this series.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781469103327
Publisher:	Xlibris US
Publication date:	03/23/2003
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	576
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

Therapist Peter Gerlach has researched stepfamilies professionally since 1979. This series of books and the related non-profit Web site at http://sfhelp.org come from _ an extensive review of stepfamily literature for his Social Work master's thesis, _ over 17,000 hours' classroom and clinical consultation with more than 1,000 co-parents and kids, and _ living in two stepfamilies. An ex engineer, trainer, and manager, Peter has also studied and taught communication skills for 30 years. He's been recovering as an "ACoA" son of two alcoholics since 1986. That led to research on the impact of a low-nurturance environment on young kids, and how clinicians can help survivors heal. Peter is an invited member of the Stepfamily Association of America's Board of Directors and a contributing editor to Your Stepfamily magazine.