What Children Learn from Their Parents' Marriage: It May Be Your Marriage, But It's Your Child's Blueprint for Intimacy

In a breakthrough approach to family dynamics, this eye-opening book shows that the relationship between parents is critically important to children's emotional and psychological development. Siegel identifies the seven key elements of marriage that determine the emotional health of children now and in their future. n nHow 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.n nTalking 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.n nBy 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.n