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Maintain a great relationship with your kids during and after divorce. More than half of all marriages end in divorce, many with kids caught in the middle. If you're a father going through divorce and you want to keep a close relationship with your children, you need practical guidance and advice on building a new life, keeping your kids' needs front and center. Being a Great Divorced Father gives you the strategies and building blocks for maintaining a relationship with your children and shows you how to prioritize their needs as your life changes. Learn how to: - create a new home and make room for your kids in it - manage babysitters, after-school care and other details of daily life - create and enforce house rules governing homework, TV, game use, and recreation - communicate effectively with your ex: being nice, sparing the kids, establishing boundaries, and finding ways to agree - settle legal and custody issues - handle dating and remarriage Being a Great Divorced Father helps you create an extended family by cooperating and collaborating with your former spouse, and prioritizing your children's needs, all written by a dad who's been there. Plus, read insightful examples of families who have met the challenges of divorce transition with success.

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We've never seen a Nolo book we didn't like. Small Business Opportunities The nation's largest publisher of self-help legal books and software. The Wall Street Journal In his landmark book, Paul Mendelstein advises divorced fathers to find ways to play a crucial role in their children's lives. He suggests that they call a truce with their ex-spouse -- to put an end to active fighting and to collaborate. While this is may be a challenge at times, collaboration with an ex paves the way for greater cooperation in the future. Children flourish best when raised by both a father and a mother -- whether in a divorced or intact family. Terry Gaspard, MSW, LICSW, Huffingtonpost.com

We've never seen a Nolo book we didn't like. Small Business Opportunities The nation's largest publisher of self-help legal books and software. The Wall Street Journal In his landmark book, Paul Mendelstein advises divorced fathers to find ways to play a crucial role in their children's lives. He suggests that they call a truce with their ex-spouse -- to put an end to active fighting and to collaborate. While this is may be a challenge at times, collaboration with an ex paves the way for greater cooperation in the future. Children flourish best when raised by both a father and a mother -- whether in a divorced or intact family. Terry Gaspard, MSW, LICSW, Huffingtonpost.com

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Paul Mandelstein is founder and executive director of the Father Resource Network (www.father.com) which provides support and referral services designed to help men meet the challenges of fatherhood today and improve the strength of their families and communities. Paul is a pioneer in the field of personal communications and technology reference publishing; as president and publisher of The Book Publishing Company he directed a line of books in the family planning, comparative religion and community life categories. Along with other stints in publishing, he served six years as director of outreach publications for a nonprofit charitable relief organization working with the United Nations. Paul is a divorced father with three children.

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