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Summary: Just doesn't cut it.
Review: 1997 information just doesn't cut it for 2003. This is a nice book for a nice person, dealing with a nice person. That's not what I am facing. I found "Fathers' Rights: Hard-Hitting & Fair Advice for Every Father Involved in a Custody Dispute by Jeffery M. Leving" a better book for me because I face a woman in court. I also bought "Win Your Child Custody War: Child Custody Help SourceBook by Charlette Hardwick" by far the best book if you are in the same hell as I am. I am in this for the long run. I love my kids and they need me in their lives and I need them in my life no matter what their mother thinks. I am a good man and a great dad. I will win and I will be the best custodial dad and co-parent on this planet.
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Summary: i'd love to support to my an adorable kid !
Review: hello! i'd like to have under and support child through to my an adorable kid through to being good parents with our beautiful and good-looking lovely and an adorable kid to me and being parents, though! thank you for my pleasure through to being an adorable kid through parents and my beautiful kid's child support, although! therefore i say, i've always loved my beautiful and an angel beautiful lovely adorable kid through to me and being parents,too. god blesses you, amen!honestly sincerely,
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Summary: Usefulness Depends on Your Situation
Review: I am going through a divorce that is a little sticky but not horrible. We have one child, and I looked to this book to help me and my wife devise a great dual-home for our child. I actually found the book did not help me at all because the perspective is from a much harsher divorce. So, if you are in the middle of a slightly ugly divorce, this might be helpful, but otherwise, I'm not sure. Let's put it this way--the title makes it sound like a slam-dunk, but unless your situation is just like the one(s) presented, you may find it just a waste of money. I'm looking for another book on single-fatherhood and saw this title, and thought I should write this note so that lots more people don't have the same experience. Good luck.
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Summary: Good ideas, but I'll continue to research more...
Review: I bought this book in the midst of a custody case for my husband's daughter. The description of the book, chapter titles, etc., made it sound like exactly the information I was looking for to help us through a very rough time and give us some ideas on how to improve communication and ease tension.
However, I finished this book feeling a little let down and confused. As another reviewer pointed out, if the people in the book were able to work so well together while getting divorced, why did they not attempt to remain together and seek counseling/structure for their marriage? The ultimate dream of any small child with divorcing parents is for them to remain together.
Also, it seemed like 90% of the examples of families/home structures in this book had the children living with their mother, and the father as the non-custodial parent. Although my husband did not ultimately get custody of his daughter, he is a wonderful father, and we know many dads who have physical custody. A few more examples of kids living primarily with their father would have been nice. As a parent, I can definitely say that I don't believe a mother loves a child any more than a father does. There is a special bond for a woman and her children to be sure, but there is just as special and loving bond between father and child.
While the real-life examples conveyed the anger and frustration of divorce, there wasn't much about custody cases. This was a topic that was supposed to be covered in this book, and it was only lightly touched upon. Dr. Ricci would have done more of a service to the readers of the book if she had touched on any and all scenarios of divorce/custody/visitation.
I believe there is always room to grow as a person and as a family. This is not a bad resource, but check it out from the library rather than buy it, and look into other materials as I am.
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Summary: Outdated Information
Review: I can see from the dates on the 5 Star reviews that this book was more valuable in the 70's. The attitudes in our society and the legal arena have moved way past this book.
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Summary: Change your ideas about "winning custody."
Review: I cringed when I heard a divorced friend of mine complain that his wife was unfairly accusing him of taking all the best stuff when they divorced, because she "got" the kids. How awful for children to be things to be won. Kids need homes and parents, and this book will help parents caught up in the current culture of "winning custody" to understand that "reasonable visitation" is a rotten way for kids to relate to their parents. This book effectively explains what parents can do to help their kids feel loved and important and continue meaningful relationships with both parents. I highly recommend it to any divorced or divorcing parent who is committed to minimizing the divorce's negative effects on their children. The author's ideal of "two homes with no fighting" is right on track. I also highly recommend Dr. Richard Warshak's "The Custody Revolution: the Father Factor and the Motherhood Mystique."
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Summary: Change your ideas about "winning custody."
Review: I cringed when I heard a divorced friend of mine complain that his wife was unfairly accusing him of taking all the best stuff when they divorced, because she "got" the kids. How awful for children to be things to be won. Kids need homes and parents, and this book will help parents caught up in the current culture of "winning custody" to understand that "reasonable visitation" is a rotten way for kids to relate to their parents. This book effectively explains what parents can do to help their kids feel loved and important and continue meaningful relationships with both parents. I highly recommend it to any divorced or divorcing parent who is committed to minimizing the divorce's negative effects on their children. The author's ideal of "two homes with no fighting" is right on track. I also highly recommend Dr. Richard Warshak's "The Custody Revolution: the Father Factor and the Motherhood Mystique."
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Summary: We formed a new relationship with the help of the book
Review: I don't care if this was supposedly "Revised and expanded" it's still something that does not have enough relevant information for our time in the 21st century. If you want books that can help try finding something no more than a couple years old!!
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Summary: Can you say Outdated as .......
Review: I don't care if this was supposedly "Revised and expanded" it's still something that does not have enough relevant information for our time in the 21st century. If you want books that can help try finding something no more than a couple years old!!
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Summary: I wasn't all that impressed with the book's over-all content
Review: I felt the book relied far too heavily on a parents guilt about what he/she could/could not provide, depending on that parent's custody arrangement. From an objective stand-point, ie: step-parent of 2 non-custodial children, the guilt issue is far too overplayed. Get over the guilt & deal with what is feasible for either parent to do for both the children AND themselves. Sure, the children are important...but so are the parents...and I have not seen that mentioned anywhere in this publication. Are the parents of these children really so unimportant that their own well being doesn't matter? Are the children so important that it's ok for the parents to put aside their own needs in favor of what a child wants? I don't think there's much of a balance in this book. It's all very one sided...and not a terrific over-view of what really happens once one parent re-marries!
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