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To all co-parents, divorced parents, separated parents, single parents, and parents in stepfamilies, your search ends here!PARENT WARS: Dealing with an Ex to Build Emotionally Healthy Kids provides separated parents and professionals with two missing Principles they have needed to build solid, emotionally healthy kids.Now, regardless of either parent's failures, by acting on these revolutionary Principles, one separated parent alone can prevent even reverse emotional damage in children and restore them to emotional health. During the 15 years that the author worked with thousands of separated parents, he found that almost all of their children, young and old, had been negatively affected by their parents' separation. But on rare occasions, some of the children, now adults, remarkably showed no signs of any trauma. How could this be?This led to two core questions: How could individuals who had experienced so much loss have remained so completely undamaged or, If they had been emotionally damaged, how had they become restored? The extremely elusive answers to these important questions became the primary focus of the author over the next several years, and he found the answers! two incredibly life-changing Principles that would preserve children's emotional health following their parents' separation. And there's more. The author also discovered - that within a child is an emotional structure that is key to the child's emotional health. It is in understanding this structure that we will recognize how children are emotionally damaged and how they can be restored.- the true definition of conflict. What may be a peaceful relationship between exes can actually be a form of conflict and damaging to children.- that ending parent conflict alone is not enough to build healthy kids. Ending conflict is one thing, rebuilding children is entirely different. Restoring children to emotional health requires new knowledge and a completely new set of skills.- who damages or rebuilds kids. It is not always the bad parent who damages kids and it is not always the good parent who rebuilds them.

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Dr. Donald R. Partridge is the proud parent/stepparent of a twenty-eight year highly successful blending stepfamily with seven adult children. Understanding personally the complex problems experienced by single parents and stepfamilies and their children, and, after earning his graduate degrees, Dr. Partridge immersed himself full-time, in issues common to separated parents. Today Dr. Partridge is a prolific writer and an avid public speaker presenting throughout the country leading edge-information to single parents and stepfamilies.

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