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Something for Joey by Richard Peck. I read it as a kid and bawled for two weeks. My mother threatened to ban me from reading if I didn’t stop. The horror! Something for Joey https://www.amazon.com/dp/0553271997/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_glc_fabc_6vP4Fb8K62R0V
See if you can find a book on divorce for kids. IDK if you can buy one online. There are a TON of books on this topic. This is an example. Do some reading on the topic. Knowledge is power. You'll learn a lot. The biggest lesson is one you've already got which is that parents are humans too and they make mistakes. Making a mistake isn't the end of the story. What they do afterward is where the real work begins. Hopefully both of your parents will put in the effort to make themselves and you better for it. They will both always be your parents and it sounds like you already know that. They might not be a couple any longer but they'll always love you and they'll always be your parents.
Good luck! 🍀
If this were me (disclaimer sometimes I get relationships wrong) but I would give your friend this book. It’s about the 5 live languages. Maybe get yourself a copy too and say you guys can read it at the same time and talk about it. A need is an opportunity. She has a great opportunity here to learn about love. Often we find love by giving it. Perhaps her parents show it in different ways. Perhaps she can recognize love in them or in others. You’re a great friend for being concerned.
I like that in the second part of the video, Doug advocates for free speech, asserting that Marx valued freedom of speech also.
I have to take issue with the first part of the video. It would be far too easy for a naive person to view it and come to the conclusion that people undergoing a process of "self-criticism" in the struggle sessions and concentration camps of cultural revolution-era China were simply coming to terms with their deeply held classist biases. The exact number is impossible to ascertain because for obvious reasons the CCP has never had any interest in the wider world's knowing it, but a minimum of 1 million people, and probably far more, were killed because of their political beliefs, suspected political beliefs, or to further the personal goals of party officials or Red Guards, all in the name of the cultural revolutions quest to rid china of the 4 olds: Old customs, old culture, old habits, and old ideas.
To choose not to contextualize the cultural revolution in an historically honest way in this video is a glaring omission, especially when there seems to be an implication along the lines of "yes, cancel culture is at least sort-of Marxist and that's a good thing." Perhaps Douglass will do so in the follow-up video he alluded to, I certainly hope so.
I cannot recommend highly enough the memoir "Red Scarf Girl" by Ji Li Jiang, a survivor of the cultural revolution. The parallels between the self-proclaimed anti-racist movement, its associated cancel culture, and the rhetoric against and expectations of people coming from what were deemed to be "wealthy" families in China at that time are striking.
Somewhere There Is Still a Sun: A Memoir of the Holocaust, author Todd Hasak-Lowy, in collaboration with Michael "Misha" Gruenbaum
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I think that's plenty of time for the first few books, especially since a lot of the books rely on narration which I assume the show won't have as much of. I know people hate the movie, but it did manage to fit in a good chunk of the first three books in two hours, so it should be easy to fit one book in one hour.
Apparently the audiobook for the first books is only two and a half hours. Again, assuming they don't have as much narration on the show, plus that they'd obviously at least cut out a lot of the "he said" and descriptions of people doing things, seems like one hour would be enough. By the fourth book they might bump it up to three episodes.
I am in a Holocaust Literature class right now, and Eva Kor came to our school a few weeks ago and gave a lecture to us. She only spent the first 20-30 minutes telling her story, and then she spent the rest of her lecture telling us how she came to forgive a Nazi doctor. It was really interesting how little she focused on the actual story, and how much she emphasized the importance of forgiveness. For anyone that wants to watch that, here it is!
She has a book that I haven't read, but seems to be doing very well on Amazon, here's the link to that as well.