When Parents Part Audiobook By Penelope Leach cover art

When Parents Part

How Mothers and Fathers Can Help Their Children Deal with Separation and Divorce

Preview
Try for $0.00
Prime logo Prime members: New to Audible?
Get 2 free audiobooks during trial.
Pick 1 audiobook a month from our unmatched collection.
Listen all you want to thousands of included audiobooks, Originals, and podcasts.
Access exclusive sales and deals.
Premium Plus auto-renews for $14.95/mo after 30 days. Cancel anytime.

When Parents Part

By: Penelope Leach
Narrated by: Fran Tunno
Try for $0.00

$14.95/month after 30 days. Cancel anytime.

Buy for $17.16

Buy for $17.16

Confirm purchase
Pay using card ending in
By confirming your purchase, you agree to Audible's Conditions of Use, License, and Amazon's Privacy Notice. Taxes where applicable.
Cancel

About this listen

From the author of the best-selling Your Baby and 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.

©2014, 2015 Penelope Leach (P)2015 Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Child Psychology Children's Studies Developmental Psychology Divorce & Separation Parenting & Families Psychology Psychology & Mental Health Relationships Social Sciences Divorce
adbl_web_global_use_to_activate_T1_webcro805_stickypopup
All stars
Most relevant  
The narration was fine, if a bit cloying, but you should run screaming from this book. The author's thesis is that you will ruin your child's life if you ever separate or divorce your spouse, therefore if you've done it, you are a terrible parent. The author provides laughable scenarios of child "neglect" and "abuse" by distracted parents going through divorces, such as the time one mother pushed her baby in a stroller too long. ??? Don't buy it. Not helpful, and totally impractical.

guilt overload

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

This author is condescending and does not offer any helpful information. She's essentially saying you're an awful parent for divorcing. Fuck her. Good-bye.

if i could give fewer stars I would

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.