Binding: Hardcover Dewey Decimal Number: 792.028092 EAN: 9780312363369 ISBN: 0312363362 Label: St. Martin's Press Manufacturer: St. Martin's Press Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 240 Publication Date: September 23, 2008 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Release Date: September 23, 2008 Sales Rank: 8863 Studio: St. Martin's Press
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“I have been through some of the worst of contentious divorce litigation,” AlecBaldwin declares in A Promise to Ourselves. Using a very personal approach, he offers practical guidance to help others avoid the anguish he has endured.
An Academy and Tony Award nominee and a 2007 recipient of Golden Globe, SAG, and Television Critics Association Awards for best actor in a comedy, Alec Baldwin is one of the best-known, most successful actors in the world. His relationship with Kim Basinger, the Academy Award–winning actress, lasted nearly a decade. They have a daughter named Ireland, and for a time, theirs seemed to be the model of a successful Hollywood marriage. But in 2000 they separated and in 2002 divorced. Their split---specifically the custody battle surrounding Ireland---would be the subject of media attention for years to come.
In his own life and others’, Baldwin has seen the heavy toll that divorce can take---psychologically, emotionally, and financially. He has been extensively involved in divorce litigation, and he has witnessed the way that noncustodial parents, especially fathers, are often forced to abandon hopes of equitable rights when it comes to their children. He makes a powerful case for reexamining and changing the way divorce and child custody is decided in this country and levels a scathing attack at what he calls the “family law industry.”
When it comes to his experiences with judges, court-appointed therapists, and lawyers, Baldwin pulls no punches. He casts a light on his own divorce and the way the current family law system affected him, his ex-wife, and his daughter, as well as many other families. This is an important, informative, and deeply felt book on a contentious subject that offers hope of finding a better way.
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Rating: - A Promise to Ourselves by Alec Baldwin
I read it from 12 midnight until 4;00 A.M. I couldn't put it down!! My son recently went through a similar experience with child custody and it was a nightmare. He's reading it now and will probably write to Alec directly. I highly recommend it.
Rating: - change is coming...
Mr. President, Please read this book. Please change the real weapon of mass destruction. (Anti)Family Court.
I wonder if Barack has read this book yet. If Michelle divorces you(you have more than a fifty percent chance she will!) will she get the White House? Will the tax payers pay, alimony, insurance, unreasonable childsupport, White House maintenace, contents maintenance? Will the judge force you to miss your children growing up? Will you be left with the stigma of doing something ... Read More
Rating: - parental alienation syndrome falsehoods
While I am sure Alec sufferred under the legal system and other emotional traumas of custody, the claim that Parental Alienation Syndrome (PAC) was at fault is clearly misleading. There is no medical or psychiatric or other credibility for this as a syndrome. Labeling it so makes it seem somehow legally vialbe as a diagnosis. It is sad that PAC has taken hold and some judges actually use this as a point of reason. In many cases it is used harmfully by those who are abusive of thier intimate partners ... Read More
Rating: - thanks Alec for your openness and your sharing
Fantastic book. Thanks so much Alec Baldwin for your courage, your moxie, your openness, your sharing. I facilitate a dad's resource group in central IL, and while the courts here aren't the CA family courts (minor procedural and detail differences), the Illinois courts are as bad, as prejudiced against fathers, as painful a system. The system is broken beyond any semblance of working, and the presumption of shared parenting/joint custody needs to be the NORM never the exception.
Rating: - Articulate, Informative and Eye-Opening
When I first heard that Alec Baldwin was writing a book about his divorce and the ruthless custody battle between him and his ex-wife Kim Basinger, I had to wonder in how many ways he would seek to slander her. I, like most of the ignorant public, considered Baldwin a volatile man, having seen his assault of a paparazzi on the news after the birth of his daughter Ireland and having heard the notorious and venomous voice mail he left for his daughter in 2006 (courtesy of the slimy celebrity news network ... Read More
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