Chapters
1 Introduction: The Secret Life of Separated Parents2 A Story of Untangling with Young Children in the ‘70s
3 Untangling: Normal Differences and Formal Separations
4 A Family Rearranges Through the ‘80s and ‘90s
5 Rearranging
6 Grandchildren See Everyone As Kin
7 Stories of Six Families Recognizing Moments of Kinship
8 Stories of Double Pioneers: Lesbian and Gay Families Recognize Kinship
9 Becoming Partners Again?
10 Wisdom for Separated Parents
Synopsis of The Book
Parents of one million children separate
each year. Under the radar of
media attention, there is a secret life for these separated parents.
A post-separation relationship is no longer an oxymoron. Their
connection continues and can be cordial. Kinship around children keeps
separated parents tied in complex, silly and serious ways forever.
Divorce does not have to be un-happily ever after [more].