We're Still Family What Grown Children Have to Say about Their Parents' Divorce

Name: We're Still Family What Grown Children Have to Say about Their Parents' Divorce
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ISBN: 9780060193058

ISBN-10: 0060193050

ISBN-13: 9780060193058

Edition: 2004

Authors: Constance Ahrons

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What is the real legacy of divorce? Constance Ahrons, Ph.D., author of the highly praised The Good Divorce, decided to find out by expanding her landmark study to include in-depth interviews with 173 grown children whose divorcing parents she interviewed twenty years earlier. What she has learned is both heartening and significant. In We're Still Family, Ahrons challenges the myth that children of divorce are troubled, drug abusing, academically challenged, and unable to form adult relationships. Instead she provides new evidence that the legacy of divorce is not as devastating as some researchers have suggested. Major findings show that: Most of these young adults emerged stronger…

Book details

List price: $24.95
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 6/1/2004
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 304
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.01" tall
Weight: 1.166
Language: English



Introduction



The Truth About Divorce



No Easy Answers: Why the Popular View of Divorce Is Wrong



The Adult Children Speak: The Real Legacy of Divorce



Lingering Memories About Their Predivorce Family: Adult Children Look Back at Their Parents' Marriages Before the Divorce



Changes, Changes: What Our Kids Want us to Know About What Works and What Doesn't



Living Arrangements: What Kids Have to Say About Their "Best Interests"



Fathers: The Most Vulnerable Relationship and How Adult Children Work It Out



Reinventing the Brady Bunch: How Remarriage Changes Children's Lives



The Importance of Tribal Elders: Adult Children Tell Us How Parental Cooperation Matters



Strengthening Our Binuclear Families



Fostering Resilience: Helping Children Thrive in Their Postdivorce Families



Advice from the Front Lines: How to Script a Good Divorce


Postscript: A Call for Change: How Society Can Support Families after Divorce



The Research


Notes


Selected References


Acknowledgments


Index