Family Transitions: Young Children Speak Their Minds About Divorce

When a young child experiences the divorce of his parents, the child's voice is often lost. Sometimes it is lost because the adults are temporarily unable to hear it, overwhelmed as they are at the moment with their own sorrow or rage or disorientation.

Legal disputes can further silence a child when the child is asked questions impossible to answer. This video is an effort to collect in one place the many things young children say-in their drawings, in their behavior, and sometimes even in their words-when their families are coming apart.

Family Transitions is designed for mediators, judges, support programs for divorcing couples, and for the parents themselves as they examine the feelings of young children of divorce.

Available On: DVD
Produced By: Michael Trout, Infant-Parent Institute
Running Time: 16 minutes