What Children Learn from Their Parents' Marriage
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A recognized marriage and family therapist explains that in very significant ways, what a child observes in his parent's marriage is the blueprint upon which all of his future intimate relationships are built. How are your children learning about intimacy? What are they seeing when they watch you interacting with your spouse? In a ground breaking approach to family dynamics, What Children Learn from Their Parents' Marriage shows how a child's perception of the marriage his or her parents have created is the key to his or her psychological development and ultimate well-being. Talking to both intact families and divorcing couples with children, marriage and family therapist Judith P. Sigel identifies seven essential elements of marriage that determine the emotional health of a child. By combining her own work with the most current research, Dr. Siegal presents an eye-opening and highly readable book -- one that offers illuminating insight for parents everywhere who wish to build the secure foundation their children need for an emotionally healthy future.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0060929308
ISBN13:9780060929305
Release Date:May 2001
Publisher:Harper Perennial
Length:256 Pages
Weight:0.45 lbs.
Dimensions:0.6" x 5.3" x 8.0"
Customer Reviews
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Good marriages make healthy children
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 23 years ago
It may not come as a shock to most parents that the lessons our children learn in childhood are carried with them throughout their lives, but what this book makes clear is how our own marriages form a blueprint from which all our children's future relationships will be built. Siegel creates a compelling narrative using lots of case histories and anecdotes, which makes this an easy read. She helps us identify not only what we are doing wrong in our marriage, but what we're doing right, which makes our foibles a lot easier to acknowledge. She also helps us to explore how deeply our own parents' marriage affected us. A very important book with a very important goal--"the opportunity to create a positive legacy of love for our children."
Children learn what they live
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 24 years ago
This book is excellent and really focuses on average families. What kids grown up living in their households is really a reflection on what their future goals will be as molded by their parents. It is a wonderful book to read if you are looking for a practical, easy to understand book on what you can do to make your marriage more wholesome and the reflection of that will set the pace for your children in the future and what choices they make for themselves. I highly recommend it.
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