To increase awareness and consider the importance of looking for common ground when faced with different rules in different homes when parents are divorced.

To increase awareness and consider the importance of knowing how to cope when your parents are fighting.

To facilitate recovery by recognizing strong emotions from the past regarding things that cannot change, and then tossing them as a way of moving on.

To provide information about the aspects of family life, including finances and child care arrangements, that need to be explored before a family separation.

To increase knowledge about a technique where the child is invited to participate in role-playing and skits in which he reenacts relevant and sometimes painful aspects of his own history, while providing distance from his distress.

To increase knowledge about a technique where attempts are made to build or restore bonding between a child under age 6 and a primary caretaker by re-creating a sense of trust and unconditional bonding, so the child can associate other adults with positive nurturing and respond appropriately.

To learn about the importance of taking responsibility for your possessions when traveling between two homes where parents live apart.

To increase awareness about the value of divorcing parents setting a positive example to find effective ways to communicate, instead of blaming each other for family problems, so that the children are less likely to have a blaming attitude.