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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 306.890973 EAN: 9780786886166 ISBN: 0786886161 Label: Hyperion Manufacturer: Hyperion Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 400 Publication Date: September 19, 2001 Publisher: Hyperion Release Date: September 19, 2001 Studio: Hyperion Related Items:
Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Amazon.com: During the last 40 years, our society's views on how families are created and how they operate has undergone a tremendous shift. In The Unexpected Legacy of Divorce, authors Judith Wallerstein, Julia Lewis, and Sandra Blakeslee have assembled a variety of stories from people of different ages and life stages. Some are children of divorce, some are from families that stayed unhappily intact, but all of them offer valuable information important to all of us as parents, children, and members of society at large. Separate chapters focus on the different roles children take on in the event of a divorce or unhappy marriage, ranging from positive role model to deeply troubled adolescent. In many cases, the people interviewed continue to define themselves as children of divorce up to 30 years after the occurrence; this is described by one subject as "sort of a permanent identity, like being adopted or something." Both encouraging and thought-provoking, the final chapter questions how we maintain the freedom made possible by divorce while, at the same time, minimizing the damage. The authors' response to this question begins with pragmatic suggestions about strengthening marriage--not bland "family values" rhetoric but practical how-to ideas combined with national policy initiatives that have been making the rounds for years. With fascinating stories and statistics, Wasserstein, Lewis, and Blakeslee have illuminated the improvements within reach while our society experiences these massive changes in it's most fundamental relationships. --Jill Lightner Product Description: During the last 40 years, our society's views on how families arecreated and how they operate has undergone a tremendous shift. In TheUnexpected Legacy of Divorce, authors Judith Wallerstein, Julia Lewis, andSandra Blakeslee have assembled a variety of stories from people of differentages and life stages. Some are children of divorce, some are from families thatstayed unhappily intact, but all of them offer valuable information important toall of us as parents, children, and members of society at large. Separatechapters focus on the different roles children take on in the event of a divorceor unhappy marriage, ranging from positive role model to deeply troubledadolescent. In many cases, the people interviewed continue to define themselvesas children of divorce up to 30 years after the occurrence; this is described byone subject as "sort of a permanent identity, like being adopted orsomething."Both encouraging and thought-provoking, the final chapter questions how wemaintain the freedom made possible by divorce while, at the same time,minimizing the damage. The authors' response to this question begins withpragmatic suggestions about strengthening marriage--not bland "family values"rhetoric but practical how-to ideas combined with national policy initiativesthat have been making the rounds for years. With fascinating stories andstatistics, Wasserstein, Lewis, and Blakeslee have illuminated the improvementswithin reach while our society experiences these massive changes in it's mostfundamental relationships. --Jill Lightner Download Description: Twenty-five years ago, Judith Wallerstein began talking to a group of 131 children whose parents were all going through a divorce. From those conversations have come two bestsellers: Surviving the Breakup and Second Chances. Now the third volume of this longitudinal study, The Unexpected Legacy of Divorce brings all of her research up to the present and shows for the first time how children are affected by divorce long into adulthood. Using a comparison group of adults who grew up in the same communities but whose parents never divorced, Wallerstein shows how adult children of divorce essentially view life differently from their peers in intact homes, and also sheds light on the question that so many parents confront—whether to stay unhappily married or to divorce. This book is a landmark cultural event that will change the way all of us view divorce. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Useful but incompleteAre these results really unexpected? Do parents really think that children are not affected by divorce? Or do they justify that they are better off then they would have been if their parents stayed in an unhappy/unhealthy marriage? Or does any of it matter? Will this book keep parents together? Maybe, but probably not. Every adult is shaped by their childhood, but I wholeheartedly disagree with this author's stance that children are forever victims of their childhood and their ... Read More Rating: - very goodthis book provides an excellent examination of some of the ways in which divorce affects children whose parents have divorced. it provides outstanding longitudinal data over, is it 25 years, for many people. the text goes into great detail on the authors' observations and descriptions of individuals' developmental struggles. it is acknowledged by the authors that development can be challenging for all children, whether parents are happily married, whether they are bitterly married, or they divorce. ... Read More Rating:  - Unexpected Legacy of Divorce . . .What a great book! I love that the study was done over 25 years and that children of divorce were measured against functional and dysfunctional intact families. I totally recommend this read. It is an immense help to read of others who understand what a child of divorce experiences, especially when people who haven't experienced it can't seem to put themselves in the shoes of those who have. As for the business side, the book came in decent timee, but I do not remember ordering a used, ... Read More Rating: - The Unexpected Legacy of DivorceThis is the best research and factual information regarding the effects of Divorce on children who are natural psychological victims of their parents'Divorce. Unfortunately, well meaning parents are fairly helpless to alleviate the problems Divorce creates for their children. Many books talk about Divorce in a different light in terms of the effects, this book clearly states the consequences to children, many of which I have seen in my 30years plus as a psychotherapist in Denver, Colorado. Divorce ... Read More Rating: - Hello? Divorce Ain't Good for Kids!This is an invaluable study, simultaneously profound and deeply disturbing. Researchers/authors Wallerstein, Lewis, and Blakeslee describe a quarter century societal shift of monumental proportions. By the year 2000, 25% of adults under the age of 44 were children of divorce. By and large, however, society had chosen to ignore the elephant in the room of the long term impact of divorce on children. Instead, we comforted ourselves with "myths": * "The first holds that if parents are happier the children ... Read More 
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