The Love They Lost: Living with the Legacy of Our Parents' Divorce - Hardcover

Staal, Stephanie

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0385334095 ISBN 13: 9780385334099

Publisher: Random House South Africa, 2000

Synopsis

A thoughful study of the lasting impact of divorce on children draws on the author's personal experiences and scores of interviews with other children of divorced parents to describe the pain and confusion that exists in a marital breakup and its long-term effects on the lives of the children involved. 30,000 first printing.

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From the Inside Flap:

e May Be Everywhere We Turn, Yet for Many Adult Children of Divorce, There Remains a Silence on the Issues We Want Most to Hear About.

"Experts try to measure the effects of divorce through school performance, criminal records, psychological tests, but we know the final price of our parents' divorce is paid when we make our own attempts at love and security.  After all, in the conversations that pepper everyday life, we talk about our intimate relationships--our hopes and our fears, our fights and our reconciliations. It is not enough to say, as many experts do, that children of divorce are more likely to divorce themselves. The anxiety that crackles through so many of our relationships cannot be dismissed as a simple matter of cause and effect.  Of course, divorce continues to shape our behavior, for divorce is all we know. It's a part of who we are. That much is obvious. The hard part is for us to figure out how to move forward while living with the past. &

About this edition

• Publisher: Random House South Africa
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0385334095
• ISBN 13: 9780385334099
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 246