Various professions deal with divorced families. However, depending on the specific circumstances, therapists, youth welfare workers, or mediators face different challenges. Helmuth Figdor is skilled at conveying a deeper understanding of the children, their parents, and the position of the helper, which opens up new perspectives for action even in seemingly hopeless situations: missing or child welfare contradicting counseling assignments, working with highly contentious parents, enforcing visitation rights, children's refusal of contact, fundamental issues with psychological assessments, and more. In addition to the practical perspective, Figdor first explains the significance of the mother-father-child triad and the consequences of its disruption due to the parents' separation in a theoretical section.