Divorced and Blended Family Jeopardy DefinitionsEmotional Descriptors Common Emotions Teacher and Caregiver
The legal process of two individuals dissolving a marriage relationship or dissolution of a marriage bond by legal process or by accepted custom. HomeAnswer
What is divorce? Home
A family in which one or both spouses in a remarriage have a child or children by a former marriage. Home Answer
What is a blended family? Home
Children in stepfamilies may experience the cumulative effects of major changes and stresses, rather than any one factor of situation in isolation. Home Answer
What is pileup? Home
The use of shared and mutually selected or assigned readings. Home Answer
What is bibliotherapy? Home
The children shelter themselves from the pain, are not aware of the process, and hope for some kind of reconciliation on the parents’ part. Home Answer
What is denial? Home
Common among children of divorce, especially for 9-to 12- year olds, results from a fundamental feeling of collapsing, everything that they have known has given away, unless parents contribute. Home Answer
What is anger? Home
A common reaction for children, basic feelings of “Who will take care of me?” are typical, even older children report these feelings, younger children miss the noncustodial parent and fear that if one parent has left, maybe the other one will too. HomeAnswer
What is fear of abandonment? Home
Normal reaction that may last for months, it’s serious, and should be anticipated, eating and sleeping habits may change and younger children may even say “I feel sad.”, and Children may look fatigued, tired, or sad. Home Answer
What is sadness or depression? Home
“I couldn’t make my marriage work.” HomeAnswer
What is failure? Home
“Unsolicited advice is awful.” Home Answer
What is sensitivity? Home
“I’m very sad that I’ve had to put my children through this. I feel guilty about not having given them the best I could give them.” HomeAnswer
What is guilt?
“There’s a stigma attached to being divorced; there’s a strike against the children.” Home Answer
What is shame? Home
Normal in the adjustment process, and recovering from this sense of loss may take 2 to 5 years. HomeAnswer
What is disruption of attachment? Home
Feelings of hope for a new and better family situation. HomeAnswer
What is Phoenix Concept? Home
Children become members of two households, each with its own style and pattern, and one is not necessarily better or worse than the other. HomeAnswer
What is nonresidential home? Home
The turning inward and suppression of feelings of anger, is understandable for stepchildren. HomeAnswer
What is anger inhibition? Home