In this book, Robert Emery utilizes his twenty-five years of experience as a researcher, therapist, and mediator to provide parents with a new roadmap on the journey towards divorce.

Dr. Emery demonstrates how the intense emotions we experience and the way we manage them determine the divorce we undergo - and whether our children will suffer or thrive in the long term as a result of this process.

His message is hopeful yet realistic: While divorce can be an objectively painful process, parents can positively contribute to their children's adjustment to it.

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