HOW TO DIVORCE WITHOUT SCREWING UP YOUR CHILDREN “Divorce is a time of crisis and it can feel devastating. It is a time when everything feels crazy and uncertain. We struggle with feeling out of control, angry, lonely, guilty, hopeless and helpless."

"One of parents greatest concerns is how divorce will affect their children. Divorce does not doom children to years of emotional problems or lifelong dysfunction. Exposure to constant parental conflict and unhealthy families situations, however, can”.
Christina McGhee

More than 1 in 4 children in the UK will experience the divorce of their parents before they are 16 years old.

THE SERIES - We follow three British couples as they make a last ditch effort to minimize the damage that their divorces are doing to their children. They've all signed up for divorce counselling, where they must learn to love their kids more than they hate their Ex.

Over six months these couples, find a way to come together for the sake of their children.

Christina McGhee meets the families on their home turf. Her first job is to teach the right way for parents to tell children that they are about to get a divorce…

The families travel to Houston Texas, and attend an intensive course run by Christina, aimed at teaching them how to put the anger, upset and bitterness at the ending of their marriages to one side, and concentrate solely on the needs of their children.

Back in the UK, the three families try to put in to practice all that they have learned about how to minimize the damage that divorce does to kids. They try to live by their new rules – but it’s hard going, with each repeatedly taking two steps forward and one step back.

Gradually though, the parents change and their kids realise that even though their parents no longer love each other, they still love them.

The series was aired in the UK by Channel 4.

Series Producer, Director and Cameraman - Sam Whittaker

Contact CHRISTINA via our link to her website. (on the right)

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Year of Production 2006

Broadcaster
Channel 4

Running Time
3 x 50mins

Number of Episodes
3

Executive Producer
Claudia Milne & Jamie Isaacs

Contact Info

int + 44 (0) 207 284 2020

Links
Christina's website