Dr. Judith Gerhart, CFP
Certified Divorce Financial Analyst 
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Divorce and Games Children Play: Part 2
June 20, 2009
Blackmail: Children may try to manipulate a parent when they are feeling threatened by change or want their own way. Children may tell a parent they won’t visit or they will go and live with the other parent if the parent has a new girlfriend/boyfriend, is going to remarry, tells the children they can’t do something, or disciplines the children.
I’ll Get Even With You: Children rarely understand the motivation and consequences for this game as they do for the other divorce games they play. Children sometimes display hurt and anger by acting differently from ways they behaved before. Some children may be withdrawn or act violently toward themselves or others. Sometimes the child at home may be different from the at-school child.
By: Corinne Frontiero
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