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The legal process of two individuals dissolving a marriage

relationship or dissolution of a marriage bond by legal process

or by accepted custom.

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What is divorce?

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A family in which one or both spouses in a remarriage have a child or children by a former

marriage.

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What is a blended family?

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Children in stepfamilies may experience the cumulative effects

of major changes and stresses, rather than any one factor of

situation in isolation.

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What is pileup?

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The use of shared and mutually selected or assigned readings.

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What is bibliotherapy?

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The children shelter themselves from the pain, are not aware of the process, and hope for some

kind of reconciliation on the parents’ part.

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What is denial?

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Common among children of divorce, especially for 9-to 12-

year olds, results from a fundamental feeling of

collapsing, everything that they have known has given away,

unless parents contribute.

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What is anger?

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A common reaction for children, basic feelings of “Who will take care

of me?” are typical, even older children report these feelings,

younger children miss the noncustodial parent and fear that if one parent has left, maybe the other

one will too.

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What is fear of abandonment?

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Normal reaction that may last for months, it’s serious, and should

be anticipated, eating and sleeping habits may change and

younger children may even say “I feel sad.”, and Children may look

fatigued, tired, or sad.

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What is sadness or depression?

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“I couldn’t make my marriage work.”

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What is failure?

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“Unsolicited advice is awful.”

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What is sensitivity?

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“I’m very sad that I’ve had to put my children through this. I feel guilty about not having given

them the best I could give them.”

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What is guilt?

“There’s a stigma attached to being divorced; there’s a strike

against the children.”

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What is shame?

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Normal in the adjustment process, and recovering from this

sense of loss may take 2 to 5 years.

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What is disruption of attachment?

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Feelings of hope for a new and better family situation.

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What is Phoenix Concept?

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Children become members of two households, each with its

own style and pattern, and one is not necessarily better or worse

than the other.

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What is nonresidential home?

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The turning inward and suppression of feelings of anger,

is understandable for stepchildren.

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What is anger inhibition?

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