Two Happy Homes: A Working Guide for Parents & Stepparents After After Divorce and Remarriage

by Shirley Thomas

Two Happy Homes was written after readers of Parents Are Forever asked for a book that specifically advises how to bring new partners into the lives of children after divorce. This book gives practical and specific ideas for parents to create happy stepfamily lives for their children. It covers the most common errors made by moms and dads as they move on to create new family life after separation, and is highly endorced by experts. Specific advice is given for parents of children who never married, but are raising a child together, as coparents.

169 pages, Paperback

First published April 1, 2005

Reviews

[Jolie · Rating 2 out of 5]

This book had some good ideas, but it relies heavily on the parents on the other side of the divorce being cooperative and enlightened with no suggestions on how you should proceed when—as is so often the case—they aren't. The emphasis isn't really on step parents as the title implies, but on how the original parents can create a relationship that allows their current significant others to also be involved with the kids in a very peripheral way. I felt a lot of this book was culled from her co-parenting book, and not very deftly adapted to the dynamic of trying to blend families.