Understanding the Divorce Cycle: The Children of Divorce in their Own Marriages - Softcover

Wolfinger, Nicholas H.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521616603 ISBN 13: 9780521616607

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2005

Synopsis

Growing up in a divorced family leads to a variety of difficulties for adult offspring in their own partnerships. One of the best known and most powerful is the divorce cycle, the transmission of divorce from one generation to the next. This book examines how the divorce cycle has transformed family life in contemporary America by drawing on two national data sets. Compared to people from intact families, the children of divorce are more likely to marry as teenagers, but less likely to wed overall, more likely to marry people from divorced families, more likely to dissolve second and third marriages, and less likely to marry their live-in partners. Yet some of the adverse consequences of parental divorce have abated even as divorce itself proliferated and became more socially accepted. Taken together, these findings show how parental divorce is a strong force in people's lives and society as a whole.

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About the Author

Nicholas Wolfinger is an Associate Professer at the University of Utah. He is the co-editor of the book Fragile Families and the Marriage Agenda. He has published widely in journals such as Demography, Social Forces and the Journal of Family Issues. He is the recipient of the University of Utah's Superior Research Award, 2004.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0521616603
• ISBN 13: 9780521616607
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 194