The Love They Lost: Living With the Legacy of Our Parents' Divorce - Softcover

Staal, Stephanie

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0385334109 ISBN 13: 9780385334105

Publisher: Delta, 2001

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. Reprint.

About this title

From the Inside Flap:

aal’s parents divorced when she was thirteen. But it wasn’t until years later that she realized the devastating impact of her parents’ divorce on her own search for love.

She sought help. There was none. So she wrote the book she was looking for: a personal history of, by, and for the first generation of divorce.

Drawing on extensive interviews with one hundred and twenty adult children of divorce, The Love They Lost gives voice to their struggle to reconcile the emotional blueprints their parents left them with the lives they want to build as adults.

Here we meet men and women from all walks of life who share painful common ground: They are all living with the legacy of their parents’ divorce. What emerges, as they tell their compelling stories, are profound new insights that will resonate with anyone dealing with the wide-ranging consequences of divorce ... how abandonment and betrayal, both real and perceived, impact adul

About this edition

• Publisher: Delta
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0385334109
• ISBN 13: 9780385334105
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 246