Between Two Worlds The Inner Lives of Children of Divorce

Name: Between Two Worlds The Inner Lives of Children of Divorce
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ISBN: 9780307237118

ISBN-10: 0307237117

ISBN-13: 9780307237118

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Authors: Elizabeth Marquardt, Judith Wallerstein

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Is there really such a thing as a "good divorce"? Determined to uncover the truth, Elizabeth Marquardt--herself a child of divorce--conducted, with Professor Norval Glenn, a pioneering national study of children of divorce, surveying 1,500 young adults from both divorced and intact families between 2001 and 2003. In "Between Two Worlds," she weaves the findings of that study together with powerful, unsentimental stories of the childhoods of young people from divorced families. The hard truth, she says, is that while divorce is sometimes necessary, even amicable divorces sow lasting inner conflict in the lives of children. When a family breaks in two, children who stay in touch with both…

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List price: $18.00
Publisher: Potter/Ten Speed/Harmony/Rodale
Publication date: 9/26/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 5.20" wide x 7.97" long x 0.68" tall
Weight: 0.484
Language: English

Elizabeth Marquardt is an affiliate scholar at the Institute for American Values in New York City.nbsp; She is the author ofBetween Two Worlds: The Inner Lives of Children of Divorce(2005) as well as co-author of the study "Hooking Up, Hanging Out, and Waiting for Mr. Right: College Women on Dating and Mating Today."nbsp; She lives near Chicago with her husband, Jim, a college professor, and their two young children.



Author's Note


Foreword



Foreword



Introduction: What Is Not Known About Our Generation



Growing Up Divorced



Divided Selves



Little Adults



Home



Early Moral Forgers



Secrets



Child-Sized Old Souls



Getting Honest About Children of Divorce


Conclusion: What Children of Divorce Want



Comparison of "Good" and "Bad" Divorces with Happy, Unhappy and Low-Conflict, and Unhappy and High-Conflict Marriages



Full Survey Data


Notes


Acknowledgments


Index