The following are Web Site links and Resource Descriptions relating to “Children and Divorce.” We pray you will find them to be helpful.

• We first refer you to the Marriage Counseling Web Site Links page because we hope that if there is even the smallest of possibilities for the reconciliation of your marriage, you will try once again to do so because of your children. Possibly a marriage counselor or mediator can help you with this mission. To see what counseling possibilities there are, please click HERE.

• Troubledwith.com has a section of its web site devoted to “Children and Divorce.”

• The Cost of Divorce on Children —A Family Life Today Broadcast with Dennis Rainey and Steve Grissom, aired on 7/14/2006. This particular program is Day 5 of a five part broadcast series titled “Before You Divorce.” You can choose to read the transcripts of this broadcast and/or listen to it on Real Media (if your computer has that capability). The following is a description of the broadcast: “Children are often the silent victims during a divorce. On today’s broadcast, DivorceCare founder Steve Grissom talks with Dennis Rainey about the effects divorce has on children.”

• Surviving the Aftermath of Divorce — A Family Life Today Broadcast with Dennis Rainey, aired on 10/23/2006. The guests include Jen Abbas and Elizabeth Marquardt. You can choose to read the transcripts of this broadcast and/or listen to it on Real Media or Windows Media (if your computer has sound capability). The following is a description of the broadcast: “On the broadcast, Elizabeth Marquardt, director of the Center for Marriage and Families at the Institute for American Values, and Jen Abbas, author of the book Generation Ex, tell Dennis Rainey about their experience growing up without both a mother and a father in the home.” This is part one of a 5 part series on this subject (which you can also view or listen to by selecting them).

• The Beginning of the End — A Family Life Today Broadcast with Dennis Rainey, aired on 9/18/2006. (This is Day One of a 3-day series.) The guests include Bill and Jesse Butterworth. You can choose to read the transcripts of this broadcast and/or listen to it on Real Media or Windows Media (if your computer has sound capability). The following is a description of the broadcast: “On today’s broadcast, award-winning communicator Bill Butterworth and his son, Jesse, talk to Dennis Rainey about the divorce that changed both of their lives forever.”

• Breaking the Cycle of Divorce -By John Trent, published by Focus on the Family. This book is written on the principle that “when you come from a home of divorce, making your own marriage work can be tougher than average. But, you can stop the cycle. In Breaking the Cycle of Divorce, author John Trent, an adult child of divorce himself, offers encouragement, insight and the tools to equip you to beat the odds. Learn to face your fears, make reasonable and realistic changes, and get the help you need to avoid becoming a negative statistic. You can have a marriage that’s strong —that thrives —and gives your own children a solid foundation for happily married lives.” Preview or Purchase this book now.

• Six String Rocketeer -By Jesse Butterworth, published by WaterBrook Press. In this book, Jesse tells the story of the break up of his parent’s marriage and his home with humor, honesty, and heart. He also shows how he figured out what to do with the emotions that come with divorce: anger, hurt, frustration, and loss. Picking up a beat up guitar, Jesse discovered that he could turn his misery into music and his pain into passion–becoming the Six String Rocketeer. In the process Jesse realized that the wounds that hurt you can become the wounds that heal you. Author Lee Strobel said of this book: “Heartbreaking one moment, laugh-out-loud funny the next, Jesse Butterworth has written a valuable book for anyone whose parents are going through a divorce. Without preaching, he invites readers into his own story of how he coped with his parents’ breakup—and brings much-needed encouragement along the way.” Preview or Purchase this book now.

• Between Two Worlds: The Inner Lives of Children -By Elizabeth Marquardt, published by Crown Publishers. In this book, Elizabeth answers the question: “Is there really such a thing as a ‘good divorce’? Determined to uncover the truth, Elizabeth Marquardt—herself a child of divorce—conducted, with Professor Norval Glenn, a national study of children of divorce, surveying 1,500 young adults from both divorced and intact families. In Between Two Worlds, she weaves the findings of that study together with powerful stories of the childhoods of young people from divorced families. The hard truth, she says, is that while divorce is sometimes necessary, even amicable divorces sow lasting inner conflict in the lives of children. When a family breaks in two, children who stay in touch with both parents must travel between two worlds, trying alone to reconcile their parents’ often strikingly different beliefs, values, and ways of living.” This book is “alive with the voices of men and women whose lives were changed by divorce.” Preview or Purchase this book now.