EP: 045 Ellen Bruno Empowering Kids to Share Their Experience with Divorce Parents going through a separation often make one of two choices when it comes to communicating with their children: 1) They protect the children by sharing very little about the process, or 2) They involve their children in adult conversations, treating them as […]
Parenting Strategies to Help Children Thrive Through Divorce with Dr. JoAnne Pedro-Carroll
EP: 035 Dr. JoAnne Pedro-Carroll Parenting Strategies to Help Children Thrive Through Divorce Parents worry about the long-term impact divorce will have on their children. The good news is that two-thirds of the children of divorce are just fine. The bad news is that one-third are, indeed, disadvantaged by long-term problems. What can parents do […]
Understanding Parental Alienation with Charlie Jamison
EP: 027 Charlie Jamison Understanding Parental Alienation Parental alienation is a high-stakes game with serious, long-term consequences for the children involved. When a child is manipulated into showing unwarranted fear or hostility toward the targeted parent and used as a pawn in one parent’s agenda against the other, it alters their sense of reality and […]
Making Divorce Child-Centric with Dr. Eric Frazer
EP: 024 Dr. Eric Frazer Making Divorce Child-Centric In working with divorcing clients, family lawyers develop both legal and financial strategy. But there is a third element to the ‘triad of divorce’—the family. How can we support lawyers in gathering the information they need in the area of child custody? How can we make divorce […]
The Child Specialist: Giving Children a Voice in the Divorce Process with Dr. Lauren Behrman
EP: 015 Dr. Lauren Behrman The Child Specialist: Giving Children a Voice in the Divorce Process Parents are often wary of the role of a child specialist in the divorce process. They don’t want to put their children in a difficult position, and the divorcing couple may be under the mistaken impression that the child […]
The Role of the Attorney for the Child with Dawn Cardi
EP: 011 Dawn Cardi The Role of the Attorney for the Child In a contentious divorce where the couple disagrees on issues of custody and visitation, the attorney for the child is responsible for representing the will of their child-client. How does this lawyer go about determining the child’s position? What resources do they have? […]
Approaching Divorce in a Child-Centered Way with Micki McWade
EP: 003 Micki McWade Approaching Divorce in a Child-Centered Way No parent wants to hurt their children, yet the conflict dynamic that generally accompanies the divorce process can be very painful, particularly in a litigated case. Even parents with the best of intentions inadvertently engage in behaviors that seem innocuous to them—but cause their kids […]