1. Divorced and Blended Family Jeopardy DefinitionsEmotional Descriptors Common Emotions Teacher and Caregiver 100 200 300 400

2. The legal process of two individuals dissolving a marriage relationship or dissolution of a marriage bond by legal process or by accepted custom. HomeAnswer

3. What is divorce? Home

4. A family in which one or both spouses in a remarriage have a child or children by a former marriage. Home Answer

5. What is a blended family? Home

6. Children in stepfamilies may experience the cumulative effects of major changes and stresses, rather than any one factor of situation in isolation. Home Answer

7. What is pileup? Home

8. The use of shared and mutually selected or assigned readings. Home Answer

9. What is bibliotherapy? Home

10. The children shelter themselves from the pain, are not aware of the process, and hope for some kind of reconciliation on the parents’ part. Home Answer

11. What is denial? Home

12. Common among children of divorce, especially for 9-to 12- year olds, results from a fundamental feeling of collapsing, everything that they have known has given away, unless parents contribute. Home Answer

13. What is anger? Home

14. A common reaction for children, basic feelings of “Who will take care of me?” are typical, even older children report these feelings, younger children miss the noncustodial parent and fear that if one parent has left, maybe the other one will too. HomeAnswer

15. What is fear of abandonment? Home

16. Normal reaction that may last for months, it’s serious, and should be anticipated, eating and sleeping habits may change and younger children may even say “I feel sad.”, and Children may look fatigued, tired, or sad. Home Answer

17. What is sadness or depression? Home

18. “I couldn’t make my marriage work.” HomeAnswer

19. What is failure? Home

20. “Unsolicited advice is awful.” Home Answer

21. What is sensitivity? Home

22. “I’m very sad that I’ve had to put my children through this. I feel guilty about not having given them the best I could give them.” HomeAnswer

23. What is guilt?

24. “There’s a stigma attached to being divorced; there’s a strike against the children.” Home Answer

25. What is shame? Home

26. Normal in the adjustment process, and recovering from this sense of loss may take 2 to 5 years. HomeAnswer

27. What is disruption of attachment? Home

28. Feelings of hope for a new and better family situation. HomeAnswer

29. What is Phoenix Concept? Home

30. Children become members of two households, each with its own style and pattern, and one is not necessarily better or worse than the other. HomeAnswer

31. What is nonresidential home? Home

32. The turning inward and suppression of feelings of anger, is understandable for stepchildren. HomeAnswer

33. What is anger inhibition? Home