Children Don't Divorce

Rosemary Stones

If you are trying to help a child through the break-up of their family you may like to read this book with them. It is a well illustrated picture book, and may help a young child to know that he or she is not the only child in the world who has parents who do not love each other anymore.

I am a bit sceptical about the book’s somewhat quick happy ending for both parents and the children, but, after further thought, I think this episode may help children to talk about their worries. So often during a crisis in the family the adults have to cope with their own pain, and just hope against hope that ‘the kids are alright’. Unfortunately this is usually far from the truth.

Purists will also resent the implication that it is always the Dads who leave the family, but I suppose this little book cannot show every scenario. So take a look at Children don’t divorce, because it may well help a child to express his or her own anxieties and fears, and that is always a good thing.

Published by Happy Cat Books

  £4.99        ISBN: 1903285305

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Review published 16 April 2003 © Jill Curtis 2003