Family Photos Post-Divorce

• Pictures Celebrating Common Ground
When parents divorce each other, they don't divorce their children. For a child the photos taken at birthdays, a first day of school, graduations, and other occasions—are pictures of her and her parents celebrating something joyful together.

Post-Divorce Friendships

• Navigating Shared Friendships Post-Divorce
Dealing with the collateral damage of divorce such as tensions with shared friends can be challenging. It's important for your children to do so with grace and equanimity.

Why Child-Parent Separation Matters

• Child-Parent Separation as Trauma
When separations are beyond a young child’s ability to manage, the capacity to recover is compromised. Time is of the essence. With too much time, “stress” is transformed into “trauma.”

The Children's View

• Worm's Eye View of Divorce
Ever wonder how it looks? Here's one version.

Uniform Deployed Parents Custody and Visitation Act

• Minnesota's UDPCVA

This legislation addresses parenting complications faced by divorced and separated service members when they deploy.

Young Children & Divorce

• Little Children Big Challenges
Sesame Street provides tools to help young children through divorce.

Two-Parent Households

• Of Whatever Flavor

Two-parent households (of whatever flavor) are likely to be better off financially, more attentive to the upbringing of children and more secure.

Hostile Email

• Responding to Hostile Email
Make your divorce hate-mail free.

Collaborative Law

• Contemplating Legal Action?
Consider a child-centered collaborative law approach to divorce.

The Misidentified Child

• Family Conflict

The "identified patient" in a larger family dynamic is too often a child, medicated for his behavior symptoms.

Fewer Two-Parent Families

•The Rise of New Families
Decades of demographic, economic and social change have transformed the structure and composition of the American family.

More Than Two Legal Parents

• Bill moving through the California Legislature
Legislation would allow judges to recognize more than two legal parents for a given child, opening the door for legal recognition of alternative family configurations.

Legislating Custody

• Gov. Dayton Vetoes HF322 Bill
Resoundingly opposed by the MN Chapter of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers and the AFCC-MN, read why here. The 'who' behind this vetoed bill is outlined here.

Putting the Hohoho in the Holiday

•Ten Tips for the (Divorced) Holidays
Boston psychologist Robin Deutsch is the director of the Center of Excellence for Children, Families and the Law at the Massachusetts School of Professional Psychology and Associate Clinical Professor of Psychology at Harvard Medical School.

Finances for Divorcing Mothers

• Cinder Without Her Fella
Local financial advisor Carin Thomas offers a light-hearted but essential financial workbook for women going through divorce.

Just for Today

Social Early Neutral Evaluation

• SENE
If you're just embarking on divorce, consider doing it the best way: without litigation and without harm to your children.

Scholarly Research

• Parenting After Separation
This Australian Psychological Society 2009 position paper succinctly summarises current research relating to parenting in the context of separation and divorce, and considers some of the services, policies and community- based interventions that might be supportive of positive parenting functions during such major life changes.