When Parents Part by Penelope Leach

When Parents Part by Penelope Leach

From the author of the bestselling Your Baby & Child comes a book full of completely practical, comprehensively researched information and advice on how you can do what is best for your child when you are going through a separation or divorce.Using the latest scientific research in child development, Penelope Leach covers the various effects of divorce on children in five stages of life--infants, toddlers/preschoolers, primary school children, teenagers, college students/young adults--many of whom are far more deeply affected than previously thought. She explains recent studies that overturn many common assumptions and that show, for example, how many standard custody arrangements for very young children are harmful to children's attachment to their parents and therefore to their brain development. There is evidence to suggest that the practice of having infants and toddlers spend regular overnights with noncustodial parents may be damaging, and the practice of dividing children's time equally between the parents is seldom best for the children.Leach's advice is meticulously considered and exhaustive, covering everything from access, custody, and financial and legal considerations to managing separate sets of technology in two houses, and she includes the voices of both parents and children to illustrate her points. She explains why mutual parenting is the ideal way to co-parent after a divorce and delineates ways to carry this out. And throughout, she makes clear that, most importantly in any separation or divorce, both parents must put their relationship to their children and responsiveness to their needs ahead of their feelings about each other.

Penelope Leach is a leading source of child development information and child care advice for parents all over the world, and a powerful advocate for the needs of families.

She was educated at Cambridge University and at the London School of Economics, where she received her Ph.D. in psychology, after which she studied many aspects of child development and child rearing under the auspices of Britain's Medical Research Council.

A Fellow of the British Psychological Society and a founding member of the UK branch of the World Association for Infant Mental Health, she works on both sides of the Atlantic and in various capacities for parents' and children's organizations concerned with prenatal care and birth, family-friendly working practices, day care and early years education. She currently co-directs a major program of research in the UK into the effects of various forms and combinations of care on children's development from birth to school-age.

Penelope Leach's books include Babyhood, Your Growing Child: From Babyhood Through Adolescence, The First Six Months, Children First: What Our Society Must Do--and Is Not Doing--for Our Children Today and Your Baby & Child, which has been translated into 29 languages and is the basis for an award-winning cable TV series.

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ISBN 13	9781101872192
ISBN 10	1101872195
Title	When Parents Part
Author	Penelope Leach
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Random House USA Inc
Year published	2016-10-18
Number of pages	272
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