Dad's Place

Children who cope best after their parents are divorced are those who continue to see both parents, and this requires cooperation between parents, a difficult thing to achieve after a painful breakup. This book recognizes the importance of fathers in their children's lives, and sets this advice in the context of contemporary thinking about maleness and fatherhood. The topics covered in this guide include: telling the children; becoming a part-time parent; time-tabling and division of responsibilities with your ex; compromise and communication; how to deal with old wounds and guile; understnading yourself; dependency; maleness; your new partner, coming to terms with your children's other father; how to help your children and still assert your role as natural father; step-families and step-children; managing two sets of children; masculinity and fatherhood today; asserting your legal rights; and what relly matters to your children.