M. Gary Neuman is author of Helping Your Kids Cope with Divorce the Sandcastles Way, which has gotten great reviews. Neuman says that when parents bad mouth each other children often question whether they can love both.

Click here to read Neuman’s five steps on helping your children open up after divorce.

If you’re looking for a good book to read this summer, Laura Dave recently published her new novel, The Divorce Party, which has gotten some great reviews. Dave is also author of London is the Best City in America.

A Washington Post editorial about The Divorce Party says, “Such a satisfying read . . . The relationships among her cast are complicated, fraught and tender. Her story reads sweet but real.”

The Sex-Starved Wife: What to Do When He’s Lost Desire by Michele Winer Davis is a newly published book that’s received mixed reviews.

This book dispels the myth that men are the more sexual spouse by shedding light on the problem that husbands are aren’t interested in sex.

In The Sex-Starved Wife, Winer Davis helps couples move from the emotional and physical distance that a non-sexual relationship causes to a more passionate and loving marriage.

Theo Pauline Nestor’s recently published book, How to Sleep Alone in a King-Size Bed: A Memoir, has gotten great reviews.

Nestor writes about her split in a witty and humorous way and describes the three stages of divorce as shock/denial, adjustment and acceptance.

A new child support plan in Virginia will give deadbeat parents a second chance to stay out of jail while also saving the state jail costs.

In 2007, 7,000 deadbeat parents were jailed with the average sentence lasting about 6 months.

State officials say that most child support delinquents don’t need jail time, but rather pressure from the court to pay up.

Monica Epperson’s new book, “A Heart With Two Homes,” addresses some of the struggles children of divorce face when developing different personalities with each parent.

The author also started Blended Love, Inc., a non-profit organization to help children of divorce.

The 7 Pitfalls of Single Parenting: What to Avoid to Help Your Children Thrive After Divorce addresses some of the main pitfalls of single paretning.

Here are a few tips from the book:

1. Create a hopeful, realistic big picture. As things change, it is important to be prepared to answer the questions of where your children will live and go to school with a reassuring attitude.

2. Change the outlook of the relationship with your ex. You are no longer husband and wife, but business partners in raising your children.

3. Stay connected to your children. Listening and being physically present help to ensure a close bond with your children.

Now published in 30 languages, author Elizabeth Gilbert’s New York Times Bestseller book, Eat, Pray, Love, has been a huge success. It chronicles her year overseas following her painful divorce.

Gilbert is almost finished with her next book, which is about marriage, and is in a way a sequel to Eat, Pray, Love.

A decade ago, two Minneapolis siblings wrote a ground breaking book entitled, “Divorce Is Not the End of the World.” It was one of the first guidebooks to coping with divorce written by kids, for kids.

The book’s message is as relevant today as it was in 1997. So coauthors Zoe and Evan Stern created an anniversary edition to include more insight. Ten years of life experience has allowed the siblings to add more depth to their previous viewpoints.

The revised version is due out this month.

Nicholas Long, Rex L. Forehand has a book out called ‘Making Divorce Easier on Your Child’. The book contains fifty proven strategies to help your child become well-adjusted even in the midst of a divorce.

We’re Still Family: What Grown Children Have to Say About Their Parents’ Divorce , which was written by Constance Ahrons, is a highly-praised book that has gotten some very positive reviews.

Ahorns randomly selected 98 pairs of divorced parents in Wisconsin and conducted a five-year study. She then went back later on to learn how the children of these divorced parents fared and managed to interview 90% of them.

Approximately three-fourths of the 173 “children”, who ranged in their 30′s, thought their parents’ divorces were a good idea, and that they were all better off than if they had stayed together.

It’s one thing to work with a workaholic, but being married to one can be extremely challenging.

Byran Robinson of the University of North Carolina-Charlotte is author of
Chained to the Desk: A Guidebook for Workaholics, Their Partners and Children, and the Clinicians Who Treat Them, which has received several great reviews.

We always hear about the hardship one suffers from a personal divorce, but in an interesting New York Times article, one mother describes her own pain regarding her daughter’s divorce and has written a book about it called, “Your Child’s Divorce: What to Expect…What You Can Do”.

A former Wall Street Journal foregin correspondent, Pamela Druckerman, just published her book, Lust in Translation: The Rules of Infidelity from Tokyo to Tennessee. It hasn’t received great reviews, yet. She compares how different cultures define adultery and how they conceptualize infidelity.

Here’s some interesting data Druckerman found:
-Only 3.8 of married men and 2% of women in France admitted to having affairs
-In the U.S. 3.9 percent of men and 3.1 percent of women acklnowledged cheating
-6 percent of Americans in one survey said it was ok to cheat in some or all situations, nearly 40 percent of Russians polled saw no problem with it.

Are some truths really better left unspoken? Yes, according to Drukerman. It’s a French idea she sympathizes with.

Author Mira Krishenbaum believes couples divorce not because of their irreconcilable differences, but because they don’t spend enough quality time together. She speaks all about this in her book, The Weekend Marriage: Abundant Love in a Time-Starved World, which has received some very positive reviews.

Krishenbaum’s view goes against some who feel that when couples spend too much time together, problems arise.

For Better of For Worse: Divorce Reconsidered is an interesting book by E. Mavis Hetherington about more than 30 years of research involving 1,400 families. The findings dispel conventional beliefs that divorce has mainly negative effects.

It seems like finding that perfect someone can be difficult today. Is it harder for twenty and thirty somethings than it was for their parents when they were the same age? Some say the single status is now becoming an epidemic. Whether you have never been married or are now divorced, a new book recently came out Unhooked Generation: The Truth About Why We Are Still Single, that looks interesting.  I haven’t read it yet, but it’s on my list.

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