This is a story set in Lusaka, Zambia, about Martha, a woman who had been entrapped in an abusive marriage. Her husband, Gerry, had been cruel to her and to the child Martha had had before she met and married him. When she conceived their second child together, he had forced her to have an abortion saying he loved their first child too much to love another. He was blatantly unfaithful, often taking his girlfriend home when Martha was at work, in full view of their children.

Suffering the dilemma of having to decide what was best to do for her children's sake, she tried to bear her woes as best as she could. She revived a relationship with an old boyfriend thinking it would give her satisfaction but found out that it only made her feel worse. She finally mustered enough courage to divorce her husband once she realized things would never get better.

Once on her own, Martha tried to catch up on things she had longed to do since leaving high school. She had always loved music and she contacted a local hotel about singing there at the cabaret shows they gave. She started singing there, balancing her time between her secretarial job and her music. With support form relatives and friends, she was finally coming out of her shell and blossoming. Then Martha meets a man who promises to help her with her music if she would give up her day job to become a professional musician.

God uses divorce to save lives! Many divorced people have felt that they have let God down. Those who need to divorce feel that they are going against God's will. But no more! God Himself has spoken on their behalf. The Lord said to the author, "Son, sit down, I want to teach you about divorce." Divorce: God's Will? is the result of God's command to help people come out from under the condemnation of religion and to experience His love.

This book is full of hope and compassion! It reveals God's true heart to those who are in a bad marriage and those who have gone through a divorce. There is so much love and power that flows from these pages that it literally releases the reader from condemnation and brings their heart to total peace.

Since God's Word, the Bible, is the foundation for marriage and divorce, the author has plainly established and made clear from the Bible that God is for divorce. God cares more for the man and woman who make up the marriage than He cares for the marriage itself.

Divorce: God's Will? covers everything from staying in a bad marriage too long, to that ever-elusive subject, Submission.

This book is destined to be the psychologist's, clergy's, and family/marriage counselor's most referenced companion.

You can learn more about Divorce: God's Will? at www.divorcehope.com.

With divorce being so prevalent just about everyone either needs this book and/or knows someone who needs it. It is the perfect gift book.

The author is a mother who watched and learned as her daughter adjusted to her parents' divorce - in particular, as her daughter and ex-husband adjusted to their new relationship.
This book is the collection of life lessons learned over six years. Knowledge that was gained both first-hand and through interviews with many other families in the midst of divorce.
Because this knowledge has been documented and shared, fathers and children will benefit from what others have lived and learned.

This is an insight into our twenty-first century relationships in the U.K. reflected by a 'family law' solicitor. After years in practice divorcing people, arguing about our possessions and our children, she asks us to ask difficult questions.

Who are we? How well do we know ourselves and our sexuality? What do we really want from our relationships?

The book is peppered with illustrations from her professional and personal life. It discusses how our modern life of internet, mobiles, contraceptives, travel and media freedom has changed the partnerships we make, our expectations of them and the transparency under which they are conducted. Without the past's religious and moral restrictions and with our massive strides towards an Egalitarian society, both genders are struggling to maintain the 'Fairy Tale' of a life-long union filled with love and children.

She examines why we take more sexual partners and increasingly 'cheat' and why total honesty may be the only route to true intimacy and preservation of the family unit.

She deals with many of the relevant legal issues and procedures and includes interesting government statistics.

Not a book for the morally conservative – as the cover suggests – it is brutally honest on occasion and challenging throughout. It does not seek to provide answers but to stir us into thought; to fire us into disagreement; to provoke us to grasp the inevitable nettles within our modern land-scaped relationships and find our own individual ways to make them long, happy and truly intimate.

Not Even In Your Dreams is a powerful story about the conflicts between children's rights and parent's dreams. The reader is taken directly into the arena of conflicting attitudes on children's rights, where children become the victims of the dreams of their warring parents.

Told from the perspective of one of the children, the reader becomes a silent witness to the attitudes about children's rights as experienced by American children who find themselves in an African child's reality.

The story tells us why a loving mother ends her marriage to a supportive husband and father in order to find a better life for herself and her children. We learn about why parents are motivated to take drastic action against one another and the pain it causes their children. In this story, we learn why a desperate mother kidnaps her children from their father's custody to send them to live with a new husband in an African country.

Other highlights of the story are the children's conflicts over dividing their loyalties between their parents, their country of origin and their newly adopted culture, and the abuse they suffered at the hands of their new stepparents. The major highlight, however, is their miraculous return home to their father, family and friends in the USA.

Not Even In Your Dreams is a story for people of all ages.

In the memoir Defying the Odds, Urduja Dela Cueva chronicles her fascinating life story, opening with her journey from the Philippines to America where she begins a new chapter with the love of her life. After meeting Ralph, a handsome Navy Officer, at the United States Naval Base in Subic Bay, Urduja made the agonizing choice to leave her three children and extended family behind in the Philippines and immigrate to the United States in 1969. After she marries Ralph in a simple wedding ceremony at City Hall in Norfolk, Virginia, Ralph lands a new job on Wall Street that promises a bright future for their family. As Urduja encounters challenge after challenge, she tells the story of how she obtained a permanent visa, found steady work, and took courses at New York University, all while experiencing frightening, foretelling nightmares every night while she slept. Urduja’s true and fascinating story proves that one woman can defy all odds and still win in the end through the power of faith and God’s word.

In the memoir Defying the Odds, Urduja Dela Cueva chronicles her fascinating life story, opening with her journey from the Philippines to America where she begins a new chapter with the love of her life. After meeting Ralph, a handsome Navy Officer, at the United States Naval Base in Subic Bay, Urduja made the agonizing choice to leave her three children and extended family behind in the Philippines and immigrate to the United States in 1969. After she marries Ralph in a simple wedding ceremony at City Hall in Norfolk, Virginia, Ralph lands a new job on Wall Street that promises a bright future for their family. As Urduja encounters challenge after challenge, she tells the story of how she obtained a permanent visa, found steady work, and took courses at New York University, all while experiencing frightening, foretelling nightmares every night while she slept. Urduja’s true and fascinating story proves that one woman can defy all odds and still win in the end through the power of faith and God’s word.

It is the early 1950s when Khan and her twin brother, Lijah, are born to unmarried and poverty-stricken parents. The color of golden corn with dark curls and an oval-shaped face, Khan’s extraordinary beauty overshadows the fact that she is born with twelve fingers and eleven toes. As Khan enters the world, she has no idea that her trials are just beginning. As she grows into a young girl, Khan has big dreams despite being shuttled off to live with her grandmother by her emotionally distant mother. Her twin brother is her confidant, but they are separated at age ten when Khan is taken to live with the mother she barely knows. After being rejected by a local hospital’s nursing program, Khan moves to England to live with yet another set of strangers while she pursues her education. Excited and scared in a land thousands of miles from home, Khan is desperate for her father’s approval. As she faces insurmountable obstacles, Khan must prove her inner strength is more powerful than her most difficult challenges.

It is the early 1950s when Khan and her twin brother, Lijah, are born to unmarried and poverty-stricken parents. The color of golden corn with dark curls and an oval-shaped face, Khan’s extraordinary beauty overshadows the fact that she is born with twelve fingers and eleven toes. As Khan enters the world, she has no idea that her trials are just beginning. As she grows into a young girl, Khan has big dreams despite being shuttled off to live with her grandmother by her emotionally distant mother. Her twin brother is her confidant, but they are separated at age ten when Khan is taken to live with the mother she barely knows. After being rejected by a local hospital’s nursing program, Khan moves to England to live with yet another set of strangers while she pursues her education. Excited and scared in a land thousands of miles from home, Khan is desperate for her father’s approval. As she faces insurmountable obstacles, Khan must prove her inner strength is more powerful than her most difficult challenges.

Horsefeathers, Chaos, and Tragedy is an incredible true story about a marriage, divorce, and child custody struggle that happened over a generation ago. This saga happened in Canada at a time when divorce laws were relaxed. One may regard this story, in part, as an exposé of the then rapidly expanding divorce industry. The levels of intelligence, competence, and integrity of a few of the professionals involved in this process at that time are clearly portrayed. Four children were involved. Two of them were old enough to decide where they wanted to live. The custody struggle involved the two younger ones. The problem centered on the behaviour of the two parents and specifically on the marked differences between the public and private conduct of one of them. At various times, four different psychiatrists, more or less independent of each other, were sufficiently concerned about the mother's behaviour that they felt the father should be bringing up these young children. However, the wife hired a lawyer who had a reputation for manipulating witnesses and enhancing affidavits. The resulting struggle, in and out of court, was almost beyond belief.

Horsefeathers, Chaos, and Tragedy is an incredible true story about a marriage, divorce, and child custody struggle that happened over a generation ago. This saga happened in Canada at a time when divorce laws were relaxed. One may regard this story, in part, as an exposé of the then rapidly expanding divorce industry. The levels of intelligence, competence, and integrity of a few of the professionals involved in this process at that time are clearly portrayed. Four children were involved. Two of them were old enough to decide where they wanted to live. The custody struggle involved the two younger ones. The problem centered on the behaviour of the two parents and specifically on the marked differences between the public and private conduct of one of them. At various times, four different psychiatrists, more or less independent of each other, were sufficiently concerned about the mother's behaviour that they felt the father should be bringing up these young children. However, the wife hired a lawyer who had a reputation for manipulating witnesses and enhancing affidavits. The resulting struggle, in and out of court, was almost beyond belief.

Divorce Mediation Manual offers an important resource for anyone contemplating divorce. This manual is meant to positively assist and inform couples engaged in the process of divorce mediation, helping them navigate the process. Divorce mediation is about choosing what to do when a marriage is coming apart, and decisions must be made about what’s best for both parties. If there are children involved, the mediation process can become an important process to promote a healthy connection between the parents and the children. In mediation, the couple meets with a neutral third party, the mediator; with his or her help, they work through the issues they need to resolve, so they can end their marriage peacefully, respectfully, and inexpensively. The basic topics to resolve in mediation include the following: • Division of assets and debts • Child custody and establishing a parenting plan • Child support, spousal support, or family support • Division of employee/retirement benefits • Resolving reimbursement claims • Avoiding taxes and defining the tax basis of assets to be divided Divorce Mediation Manual is an effective guide to making the right choices when considering a divorce or engaged in divorce mediation.

AS GOOD AS A DOG A DOG CAN LIE ABOUT SOMEONE BUT NOT LIE ABOUT SOMEONE "The justice system is, unfortunately, often not a friend of the family or the truth." For what crime can a person be accused, judged, convicted, and sentenced without trial or chance to speak the truth? ANSWER: CHILD ABUSE In what court is "perjury" permitted? ANSWER: "PERJURY" IS RARELY CONSIDERED IN DOMESTIC RELATIONS CASES. The answer to the question above was written in a book describing how to succeed in your divorce case. An internet ad states, “Revenge in your domestic relations case can be achieved thru using the children, finances and assets.” Another ad states, “What is being made available are the dirtiest divorce tactics known." And what is the dirtiest tactic? It is a three letter word, “LIE.” LIE to the police, doctors, lawyers, and judges. LIE to the Custody Evaluator and the Custody Master. LIE to personnel in CYS, family, and friends. And what is a second dirty tactic? Have them LIE for you. The point of "AS GOOD AS A DOG" is to show how these "dirty tactics" were used and to present a means to fight them. I have given the proposal for state legislature to a member of the state senate. It is based on the experience of my wife and I, my daughter, and my grandsons.

Outlined within these pages, are found experience tested ideas, strategies and plans useful to anyone who has, or is about to experience a separation, and or, divorce. From providing an overview and understanding of the emotional process people experience; to revealing a practical and detailed outline – a to-do-list for people beginning the journey of divorce; to presenting anecdotal information to convey successful strategies; to mapping out useful parenting plans to enable parents to be parenting partners. Mr. Van Brunt has provided anyone who has experienced, who is about to, or is experiencing a divorce with a comprehensive overview and plan, complete with strategies they can apply to their own personal circumstances.

Outlined within these pages, are found experience tested ideas, strategies and plans useful to anyone who has, or is about to experience a separation, and or, divorce. From providing an overview and understanding of the emotional process people experience; to revealing a practical and detailed outline – a to-do-list for people beginning the journey of divorce; to presenting anecdotal information to convey successful strategies; to mapping out useful parenting plans to enable parents to be parenting partners. Mr. Van Brunt has provided anyone who has experienced, who is about to, or is experiencing a divorce with a comprehensive overview and plan, complete with strategies they can apply to their own personal circumstances.