This guide addresses the sensitive issues, and offers a positive guide to achieving successful family relations after divorce and remarriage. The book provides a constructive approach to managing children's contact with both parents after they separate in its treatment of break-ups and newly combined families. Illustrated with accounts from parents and children, this book explains how many of the potential pitfalls of estranged parenting can be avoided by being prepared and emotionally detached. It addresses issues such as: getting in touch with children's perceptions; seeing separation as a way to increase self-knowledge; accepting new kinds of relationships as a means of improving parenting; and making week-end parenting, step-parenting and blended families really work.