The Truth About Children and Divorce: Dealing with the Emotions So You and Your Children Can Thrive

Robert E. Emery, PhD

Mar 2024 · Tantor Media Inc · Narrated by Patrick Lawlor

About this audiobook

Nationally recognized expert Robert Emery applies his twenty-five years of experience as a researcher, therapist, and mediator to offer parents a new road map to divorce. Dr. Emery shows how our powerful emotions and the way we handle them shape how we divorce-and whether our children suffer or thrive in the long run. His message is hopeful, yet realistic-divorce is invariably painful, but parents can help promote their children's resilience. With compassion and authority, Dr. Emery explains: - Why it is so hard to really make divorce work - How anger and fighting can keep people from really separating - Why legal matters should be one of the last tasks - Why parental love-and limit setting-can be the best "therapy" for kids - How to talk to children, create workable parenting schedules, and more

About the author

Robert E. Emery, PhD, is a professor of psychology and the director of the Center for Children, Families, and the Law at the University of Virginia. Dr. Emery's research focuses on family relationships and children's mental health, as well as associate legal and policy issues.

Patrick Lawlor has recorded over three hundred audiobooks in just about every genre. He has been an Audie Award finalist multiple times and has garnered several AudioFile Earphones Awards, a Publishers Weekly Listen-Up Award, and many Library Journal and Kirkus starred audio reviews.