| Description |
viii, 293 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
pt. 1. The Psychological Experience of Parental Divorce. 1. Changing Our Minds about Parental Divorce. 2. Studying Family Transformation: Research Designs and the Family Changes Project. 3. The Parents' Stories: The End of a Marriage and a New Beginning. 4. The Children's Stories -- pt. 2. How Individual Family Members Adapt to Parental Separation. 5. Parents Adjusting after the Separation: What Helped? 6. Beyond the "Effects of Divorce on Children": Uncovering and Understanding Complexity -- pt. 3. Family Dyads, Adjustment, and Change. 7. The Mother-Child Relationship: Insider and Outsider Views. 8. When the Conflict Continues: Implications of Parental Conflict in the Postseparation Family. 9. Patterns of Conflict and Parenting in Divorcing Couples -- pt. 4. Parental Divorce as a Family Transformation. 10. Families after Separation: Changing Systems. 11. Wise Families, Wise Changes. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-281) and index. |
| Subject |
Divorce -- United States -- Psychological aspects.
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Families -- United States -- Psychological aspects.
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Divorced parents -- United States.
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Children of divorced parents -- United States.
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Broken homes -- United States.
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| Added Author |
Stewart, Abigail J.
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| ISBN |
1572302356 (acid-free paper) |
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