The Unexpected Legacy of Divorce: A 25 Year Landmark Study - Hardcover

Wallerstein, Judith S.; Lewis, Julia M.; Blakeslee, Sandra

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0786863943 ISBN 13: 9780786863945

Publisher: Hyperion Books, 2000

Synopsis

A landmark study of the long-term impact of divorce explores its effects on children into adulthood, marriage, and their own parenthood, revealing how they cope with their own fear of failure in relationships and their efforts to overcome that fear. 125,000 first printing. $100,000 ad/promo.

About this title

Synopsis:

In 1976, Judith Wallerstein began a 15 year study of 131 children whose parents were all going through a divorce. She asked them to share the intimate details of their lives, which they did with remarkable candour. Wallerstein was rewarded with a portrait of each of their lives as she followed them from childhood, through their adolescent struggles and into adulthood. Using a comparison group of adults who grew up in the same communities, Wallerstein returned to her original subjects 10 years after the official study ended to show how adult children of divorce essentially view life differently from their peers whose parents remain married, both happily and unhappily. We witness their struggles, their vulnerabilities, their desperate need to be loved while at the same time terrified of intimacy. Can they overcome their fear of betrayal and failure to find loving partners, or are they doomed to repeat their parents' mistakes?

About the Author:

Judith S. Wallerstein is widely considered the world's foremost authority on the effects of divorce on children. The founder of the Judith Wallerstein Center for the Family in Transition, she is a senior lecturer emerita at the School of Social Welfare at the University of California at Berkeley. She is the author, with Sandra Blakeslee, of the national bestsellers The Good Marriage and Second Chances, and with Dr. Joan Berlin Kelly of Surviving the Breakup.

Julia M. Lewis is a professor of Psychology at San Francisco State University, where she is Director of the Psychology Clinic and Coordinator of the Clinical Pyschology graduate program. She is co-principal investigator of the 25-year Children of Divorce Project.

Sandra Blakeslee is an award-winning science correspondent for The New York Times.

About this edition

• Publisher: Hyperion Books
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0786863943
• ISBN 13: 9780786863945
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 347