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Adolescents after Divorce

Adolescents after Divorce

zoom enlarge 		Authors: Christy M. Buchanan, Eleanor E. Maccoby, Sanford M. Dornbusch
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Category: Book

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Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 331
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.4
Dimensions (in): 9.5 x 6.4 x 1

ISBN: 0674005171
Dewey Decimal Number: 306.874
EAN: 9780674005174
ASIN: 0674005171

Publication Date: October 1, 1996
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Condition: No marks in text. Ragged dust jacket. Hardback. 008511Ships daily. Tracking number provided.
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p When their parents divorce, some children falter and others thrive. This book asks why. Is it the custody arrangement? A parent's new partner? Conflicts or consistency between the two households? iAdolescents after Divorce/i follows children from 1,100 divorcing families to discover what makes the difference. Focusing on a period beginning four years after the divorce, the authors have the articulate, often insightful help of their subjects in exploring the altered conditions of their lives. /pp These teenagers come from a wide range of backgrounds. Some are functioning well. Some are faring poorly. The authors examine the full variety of situations in which these children find themselves once the initial disruption has passed--whether parents remarry or repartner, how parents relate to each other and to their children, and how life in two homes is integrated. Certain findings emerge--for instance, we see that remarried new partners were better accepted than cohabiting new partners. And when parents' relations are amicable, adolescents in dual custody are less likely than other adolescents to experience loyalty conflicts. The authors also consider the effects of visitation arrangements, the demands made and the goals set within each home, and the emotional closeness of the residential parent to the child. /pp A gold mine of information on a topic that touches so many Americans, this study will be crucial for researchers, counselors, lawyers, judges, and parents. /p

Customer Reviews:

2 out of 5 stars A little hard to read   July 26, 2000
 3 out of 6 found this review helpful

I thought that this book was geared towards the academic crowd rather than people actually going through a divorce. pI am not up on my statistics, so some of the stuff was a bit over my head.


2 out of 5 stars no ethnic differences   May 25, 2000
 1 out of 5 found this review helpful

I thought this book did not address critical issues about ethnic differences regarding divorce. pConsidering that the divorce rate for African Americans is so much higher than it is for European Americans, the book seems to have a big hole in it.


4 out of 5 stars a great read   May 6, 2000
 8 out of 8 found this review helpful

If interested in the more psychological aspect of divorce and how it is viewed by the children that are affected, read this book! It's applicable to a variety of audiences and offers a seldom-mastered look at what it means for an adolescent to live through their parents' divorce and how it affects him or her in a variety of ways. It's a great look at how adolescents' lives change after a divorce.

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