Your ex-spouse is bad mouthing you to your children, constantly
portraying you in a negative light, perhaps even trying to turn them
against you. If you handle the situation ineffectively, your
relationship with your children could suffer. You could lose their
respect, lose their affections-even, in extreme cases, lose all contact
with them. The conventional advice is to do nothing, that fighting fire
with fire will only result in greater injury to the children. But after
years of consulting parents who heeded such advice with no success, Dr.
Richard Warshak is convinced that this approach is wrong. It doesn't
work, and parents are left feeling helpless and hopeless. DIVORCE POISON
instead offers a blueprint for effective response. In it, you will learn
how to distinguish different types of criticism, how and why parents
manipulate their children, how to detect these maneuvers, and how these
practices damage children. Most importantly, you'll discover powerful
strategies to preserve and rebuild loving relationships with your
children.
DIVORCE POISON is a time-tested work that gives parents powerful
strategies to preserve and rebuild loving relationships with their
children-and provides practical advice from legal and mental-health
professionals to help their clients and safeguard the welfare of
children. Whether they are perpetrators of divorce poison, victims of
it, or both, parents who heed Dr. Warshak's advice will enable their
children to maintain love and respect for their parents-even if their
parents no longer love and respect each other.
--Mark Pendergrast, author of Victims of Memory
