Dealing with Divorce and Custody Issues and Blended Families
This Principle is not complete without reading API's Eight Principles of Parenting Introduction -- important information for understanding the context API's Principles of Parenting.
Attachment Parenting International has gathered the following resources that deal with separation, divorce, custody issues, and blended families.
- Provide Consistent and Loving Care - One of API's Eight Principles of Parenting
- Strive for Personal Balance in Your Personal and Family Life - One of API's Eight Principles of Parenting
- Read Children of Divorce: Divorce and Attachment (PDF) by Isabelle Fox, PhD
- Read Overnights: The Difference Between Night and Day by Isabelle Fox, PhD
- Read Dissociation in Infants and Young Children: A Summary of the Research on its Causes and Results, by Dr. Peter Haiman
- Read How Older children Cope with Joint Custody, an excerpt from The Unexpected Legacy of Divorce: a 25 Year Landmark Study
- Read Infants and Joint Custody (PDF), an excerpt from The Unexpected Legacy of Divorce: a 25 Year Landmark Study
- Read Infants struggle in shared care while rigid, shared parenting puts school aged children at risk – new reports from LaTrobe University
- Read Overnight Custody Arrangements, Attachment, and Adjustment Among Very Young Childrenfrom the Journal of Marriage and Family
- Mediate.com: Developmentally Appropriate Parenting Plans and Time Sharing Guidelines
- Yoursocialworker.com: Planing Parenting Worksheet
The Attached Family
API's The Attached Family online magazine, updated weekly with articles on a variety of topics, is an extension of the quarterly The Attached Family print magazine. The following articles on Divorce/Custody and Blended Families are accessible at no cost on The Attached Family online magazine. Please consider joining API to help support API's ability to continue providing this information.
- In Search of Support: My Experience as a Single AP Mom
- Do Two Halves Make a Whole?
- Blending In
- Children of ‘High Conflict’ Custody Battles Tend to Suffer More Emotionally
- What Can a Parent Targeted by Parental Alienation Do?
- Dr. Isabelle Fox on Overnight Visitations: As Harmful as We Suspect?
Enjoy the quarterly magazine, The Attached Family.
