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| Introduction | |
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| How Marriage Ends Is How Divorce Begins | |
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| Common Ways Marriages Fail | |
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| Making a Working Marriage | |
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| How Marriage Can Fall Apart | |
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| How Divorce Decisions Vary | |
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| Premature Divorce | |
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| Constructing a Working Divorce | |
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| Divorce Is Family Change | |
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| The Nature of Change | |
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| The Challenge of Change: Managing Transition | |
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| Letting Go | |
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| Moving On | |
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| Clarifying the Demands of Change | |
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| Divorce Is Not a Single Change | |
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| Recognizing Two Kinds of Change | |
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| Specifying Changes with Your Child | |
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| Helping Children Cope with Pain | |
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| Helping Children Gain Resilience | |
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| The Process of Divorce | |
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| Accepting Divorce | |
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| A Highly Contested Divorce | |
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| Divorce Role and Recovery | |
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| The Breakup of a "Good" Marriage | |
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| What Works in a Working Divorce | |
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| Getting Communication in Working Order | |
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| Sharing the Data | |
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| Speaking Up | |
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| The Perils of Shutting Up | |
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| Breaking the News about Divorce | |
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| The Child's Emotional Response | |
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| Childhood and Divorce | |
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| The Child's Age Matters | |
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| Coping with the Fears Created by Loss | |
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| Signs of Trouble | |
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| "I Hate You!" | |
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| Suicidal Statements | |
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| Adolescence and Divorce | |
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| A New Challenge | |
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| How to Tell When Adolescence Has Begun | |
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| Adolescence Defined | |
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| How Divorce Affects Adolescence | |
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| Holding the Adolescent Responsible for Behavior | |
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| Divorce and Stages of Adolescence | |
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| Four Stages of Adolescence | |
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| Early Adolescence | |
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| Mid Adolescence | |
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| Late Adolescence | |
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| Trial Independence | |
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| The Only Child and Divorce | |
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| The Two-Parent/Only-Child Family | |
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| When the Parental Marriage Splits Apart | |
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| Discomfort with Conflict | |
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| Keep the Child out of Parental Conflict | |
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| Avoid Making It Worse | |
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| Parental Guilt | |
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| Establishing the Single-Parent Family | |
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| Detaching from the Ex-Spouse | |
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| Separation, Not Rejection | |
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| Creating Stakeholders in the New Family | |
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| Coping with Sibling Conflict | |
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| Managing Television | |
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| Establishing Discipline | |
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| How Divorce Changes Discipline | |
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| Inconsistency of Rules and Values | |
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| The Power of the Positive | |
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| Teaching Two-Step Thinking | |
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| Establishing Authority | |
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| Strategies for Discipline | |
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| The Principle of Consent | |
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| Guidance: Good Parents Don't Shut Up | |
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| Supervision: Good Parents Don't Give Up | |
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| Structure: Good Parents Don't Back Off | |
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| Exchange Points: Good Parents Don't Do All the Giving | |
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| Stress and the Single Parent | |
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| Understanding Stress | |
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| Moderating Start-Up Demands | |
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| Limiting Stress | |
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| The Importance of Self-Maintenance | |
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| Maintenance and Change | |
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| Change at the Expense of Maintenance Means Stress | |
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| The Importance of Support | |
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| Don't Go It Alone | |
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| Self-Respect for the Single-Parent Role | |
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| Support from Friends | |
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| The Costs of Giving Support | |
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| Support from Children | |
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| Keeping Emotional Support Within Healthy Limits | |
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| Managing Education | |
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| Keeping Performance in Perspective | |
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| Keeping Family Safe for Learning | |
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| Social Cruelty at School | |
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| The Early Adolescent Achievement Drop | |
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| The Solution to the Achievement Drop | |
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| Sex-Role Influence of the Single Parent | |
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| Origin of the Parent/Child Relationship | |
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| Early Influence of Parents | |
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| Early Influence of Peers | |
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| Sex-Role Expansion of the Single Parent Role | |
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| The Problem of the Absent Father | |
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| Sex-Role Influence Traps to Beware | |
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| Simple Psychology of Sex-Role Influence | |
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| Mother and Daughter: Similarity Versus Separation | |
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| Mother and Son: Distinction Versus Closeness | |
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| Father and Son: Acceptance Versus Comparison | |
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| Father and Daughter: Devaluing Versus Affirmation | |
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| Relationship with One's Ex-Spouse | |
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| Communicating Effectively | |
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| Positively Sticking to Specifics | |
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| Treating Your Ex-Spouse as an Ally | |
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| Subscribing to the "Articles of Consideration" | |
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| Four Categories of Differences | |
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| Managing Differences | |
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| Resentment of the "Good Time" Parent | |
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| Taking Hard Stands with the Ex-Spouse | |
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| Two-Household Family Living | |
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| Visitation Adjustments for the Child | |
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| Visitation Adjustments for the Single Parent | |
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| When Your Child Acts Like Your Ex | |
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| Adolescence-the Enemy of Visitation | |
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| Giving Marriage Another Try | |
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| Dating and the Children | |
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| Handling an Ex-Spouse's New Relationship | |
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| Role Conflict in Being a Single Parent | |
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| Stepfamily Adjustments | |
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| Common Stepfamily Tensions and Conflicts | |
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| Helping Step Relationships Work | |
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| Do's and Don'ts for Stepfamilies | |
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| Helpful Web Sites | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Helpful Support Groups | |
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| Index | |