For better or for worse : divorce reconsidered
Publication Information
New York : W.W. Norton, c2002.
Physical Description
viii, 307 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents
- 1. A new story about divorce
- pt. 2. The experience of divorce : children and adults in the first six years - 2. The his and her marriage ; the his and her divorce
- . Leaving and letting go : changes and new chances in the first two years after divorce
- 4. The balance of happiness : why people succeed or fail after divorce
- 5. Six ways to leave a marriage : the pathways men and women take out of divorce
- 6. Incompetent bullies and undisciplined disciplinarians : children and parents in the first two years after divorce
- 7. What helps and what hurts : children's adjustment six years after divorce
- pt. 2. Remarriage and stepfamily life : adults and children at eleven years after divorce
- 8. Repartnering : high hopes and crossed fingers
- 9. Building a stepfamily
- 10. Welcome to peer world : why teens from divorced and remarried families leave home earlier and get into trouble more often
- pt. 3. In the home stretch : adults and children twenty years later
- 11. Mostly happy : children of divorce as young adults
- 12. Win, lose, and draw : adults twenty years later
- 13. Lessons learned in forty-five years of studying families.