Splitting Up: Divorce, Culture, and the Search for a Real Life

pLarry G. Frolick graduated from the University of Toronto with degrees in both law and anthropology. He practiced family law for twenty years, during a time when the divorce rate skyrocketed in North America. His previous work about children has won international awards. Openly critical of our legal and medical systems, which he feels have failed the people, Frolick insists we need a radical personal approach to divorce today./p

With 20 years of practising divorce law under his belt along with a degree in anthropology, Frolick offers a unique cocktail of insight, common sense and storytelling to the divorcing public...Splitting Up is a true reflection of the breakup experience by virtue of its broad, consistently honest and often slapstick approach...For those in search of personal enlightenment and self-discovery, this is the thinking persons breakup manual. -- Christina Basciano -- The Toronto Star Frolick brings to the book both a scholarly understanding and a wealth of stories from the war zone of marriages on the rocks...his book is at once accessible, useful, and thought-provoking. -- Robert B. MacIntyre CBRA Frolicks book is a blend of hard-won practical advice, such as the type of lawyer or therapist to get in a divorce, or to avoid, and radical social theory...Splitting Up is a valuable book for anyone interested in relationships during social change. -- Lakesider While Frolick makes no bones about his agenda the books primary aim is to sound the alarm on official culture Splitting Up will not disappoint readers in search of straight up advice on the nuts and bolts of divorce. -- Lisa Peryman -- Quill and Quire What this book boils down to is a field guide to surviving the breakup of a marriage and learning to deal with single life in a world approaching the new millennium...This book may bring comfort to those who need some kind of direction in their post-divorce life. -- Grant Jennings -- Beach Metro News