Divorce Books for Non-Parents

• Getting Past Your Breakup – A positive spin on leaving relationships and how to empower yourself through that loss.

• The Optimist’s Guide to Divorce – A wonderful take on a generally dismal and depressing topic, the author does a great job at showing exactly how to get through a divorce and remain optimistic and calm.

• Splitopia – Dispatches from today’s good divorce and how to part well.

Websites and Apps for Co-Parenting

• FAYR – An app to help simplify co-parenting.
• Kids’ Turn San Diego – Offers monthly Family Workshops helping children and their parents through divorce-related transitions and challenges.
• Our Family Wizard – A handy scheduling and communication app for families with children.
• 2houses – A set of tools that help parents to communicate better and get organized for the happiness of their children.
• Talking Parents – Co-parenting app to communicate effectively with your co-parent.
• TwoHappyHomes – Creative communication and organization tools for co-parents.
• UpToParents – A free, charity-run website for co-parents to learn how to better work together to support their children. See the introduction video here.

Resources for Co-parents

• Child-Centered Divorce – A support network for parents with helpful resources on divorce and co-parenting, parenting children of divorce, and dating as a divorced parent, including a book on how to tell the kids about divorce.
• Planning for Parenting Time – A valuable PDF guide created by the Arizona courts for parents seeking information and advice on making the best decisions for their children.
• Co-Parenting Communication Guide – Another PDF guide created by the Arizona courts. This guide is intended to help co-parents with the essential communication skills they’ll need to support their children.
• Crisis Planning and Counseling for Parents with Shared Custody – This online counseling resource breaks down different family scenarios and challenges that families might be facing during COVID-19.
• Academy of Professional Family Mediations – The premier organization for divorce and family mediators which provides many great articles about going through divorce and co-parenting.
• Mediate.com – A wide array of articles to better understand the mediation process and co-parenting.
• SPLIT: A Film for Kids of Divorce (and their Parents) – SPLIT is a deeply personal film that explores the effects of divorce on children. The film features twelve children aged 6–12, who explore the often frightening and life-altering separations of their parents.

Watch a clip of the movie below.