Divorce Advice for Men | Fathers Rights Divorce | Child Custody

By Lisa S. Brown

Board Certified Counselor

As a counselor, I offer divorce help for men and frequently tell struggling divorced dads that there is one thing in life that you can always count on: change.

Change can be a good thing when things are less than desirable in our lives or we can perceive it as a bad thing if we are at a place to where we do not want things to change.

Going through a divorce for men certainly brings about a lot of change and with that change anxiety can result.

Although change can be scary it can also be the greatest force behind our growth and development as human beings.

We at DadsDivorce.com have noticed the increase of articles and blogs about “Divorce Parties” or other ways to celebrate the transition to life as a single man again. Even men who aren't single per se because as a parent you're never ever "single" again, are talking about the ways that they celebrated "The End" and the new beginning that divorce heralds in.

These parties are held once someone’s divorce has been finalized, marking the end of one life and heralding in the new.  Sounds like a typical New Years Eve party to us, but these parties appear to be becoming much more than that.  Even the English glamour model Katie Price is jumping on the band wagon, being paid 500,000 pounds to allow ITV, a public service network of British commercial television broadcasters, to telecast her celebratory event.

From the mouths of our own children... I want to introduce DadsDivorce readers to a blog post by OnTeensToday.com's very own Vanessa Van Petten.  In this post, Vanessa offers some suggestions from the perspective of a teen who went through a divorce...

My parents divorced when I was 4 and I switched houses every Monday until I was 17…so I am always trying to think of things I wish my parents had done to help out families going through this rough period.  There are a few things that I wish my parents had known: