Reviews
Association for Conflict Resolution Family Section, reviewed by Julie Denny
"Judy Osborne, a long time marriage and family therapist, has written a book for all the divorced and divorcing parents to illustrate how re-definition or “rearranging” of the family can be extraordinarily effective for raising children." See entire review
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, reviewed by Kathy Simons and Rae Simpson, co-directors of the Center for Work, Family & Personal Life
"This is a ground-breaking book, full of surprises and insight about parents who separate after having children. It turns out that most separated families don't fit our stereotypes at all." See entire review
Reviewed by Ruth Nemzoff, author of Don't Bite Your Tongue: How to Foster Rewarding Relationships with Your Adult Children (Palgrave/Macmillan, 2008)
"This engaging and well-written study of separated families persuasively argues that families that are separated are not broken, rather, they are reconfigured. This is one of the most insightful books about how extended families of unrelated or previously related persons can pull together by“creating a benign emotional space” and by reconfiguring families." See entire review
Reviewed by Judy Nygren, Executive Director of Mt. Washington Preschool and Child Care Centers, Los Angeles, CA Faculty, Human Development, Pacific Oaks College, Pasadena, CA
"Judy Osborne, a marriage and family therapist and founder and director of Stepfamily Associates in Brookline, MA, has written an insightful and valuable book on how families in which parents have separated from the conjugal relationship remain tied together in their close involvement in raising their children. To a great extent, the book is also a social history of marriage and family and the role of women in our society from the 1960s to the present time." See entire review