| Description |
281 pages |
| Contents |
Machine derived contents note: Introduction ix -- -- -- PART I: THE TRUTH ABOUT DIVORCE -- 1. No Easy Answers: -- Why the Popular View of Divorce Is Wrong 3 -- 2. The Adult Children Speak: -- The Real Legacy of Divorce 23 -- 3. Lingering Memories About Their Predivorce Family: -- Adult Children Look Back at Their Parents' -- Marriages Before the Divorce 47 -- -- PART II: CHANGES, CHANGES: WHAT OUR KIDS WANT US TO KNOW ABOUT -- WHAT WORKS AND WHAT DOESN'T -- 4. Living Arrangements: What Kids Have to Say -- About Their "Best Interests" 65 -- 5. Fathers: The Most Vulnerable Relationship -- and How Adult Children Work It Out 96 -- 6. Reinventing the Brady Bunch: -- How Remarriage Changes Children's Lives 118 -- 7. The Importance of Tribal Elders: -- Adult Children Tell Us How Parental -- Cooperation Matters 160 -- -- PART III: STRENGTHENING OUR BINUCLEAR FAMILIES -- 8. Fostering Resilience: Helping Children -- Thrive in Their Postdivorce Families 193 -- 9. Advice from the Front Lines: -- How to Script a Good Divorce 222 -- -- Postscript: A Callfor Change: How Society Can -- Support Families after Divorce 239 -- Appendix: The Research 245 -- Notes 253 -- Selected References 265 -- Acknowledgments 269 -- Index 271 |
| Notes |
Interviews with adult children from the divorced families originally studied in the author's The good divorce, c1994 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Divorce -- United States -- Longitudinal studies.
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Adult children of divorced parents -- United States -- Interviews.
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| Genre/Form |
Interviews.
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| LC no. |
2003067609 |
| ISBN |
0060193050 |
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