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We're still family : what grown children have to say about their parents' divorce / Constance Ahrons.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : HarperCollins, [2004]Copyright date: ©2004Edition: First editionDescription: xix, 281 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0060193050
  • 9780060193058
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306.89 22
LOC classification:
  • HQ834 .A675 2004
Contents:
pt. 1: 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 -- pt. 2: 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 -- pt. 3: 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 -- Appendix: The research.
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Interviews with adult children from the divorced families originally studied in the author's The good divorce, c1994.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-267) and index.

pt. 1: 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 -- pt. 2: 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 -- pt. 3: 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 -- Appendix: The research.

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