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Title: For Better or For Worse
Condition: New
Subtitle: Divorce Reconsidered
ISBN-10: 0393324133
EAN: 9780393324136
ISBN: 9780393324136
Publisher: WW Norton & Co
Format: Paperback
Type: Paperback
Release Date: 15/04/2003
Language: English
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Item Height: 211mm
Item Length: 140mm
Item Width: 20mm
Item Weight: 368g
Author: John Kelly, E. Mavis Hetherington
Genre: Society & Culture
Topic: Social Sciences, Personal Development, Gender Sex & Relationships
Release Year: 2003
Description: Mavis Hetherington, "without doubt the world's preeminent researcher on the family processes that surround divorce,...has distilled the wisdom growing out of her many studies of the short-term and long-term impact of divorce on family members" (Eleanor Maccoby, Stanford University). Offering "a welcome corrective to misleading and simplistic accounts," Hetherington "not only provides scientifically sound and wonderfully sensible guidance but dispels the myth that divorce is always negative" (Ross D. Parke, University of California, Riverside). This "widely-heralded study" (Time) is a "reader-friendly guide to how people can build success out of the stress and adversity of divorce" (Michael Rutter, Institute of Psychiatry, London), presenting a more nuanced picture of marital breakup—not as a momentary event but as a life process. Hetherington identifies the kinds of marriages that predispose a couple to divorce or not and also pinpoints "windows of change" that allow some to fashion the challenges of divorce into an opportunity for themselves and for their children. "Gold standard [research] aimed at clearing up confusion among moms and dads worried about divorce."—USA Today "Sure to become a classic in the field!"—Constance R. Ahrons, author of The Good Divorce "Without doubt the world's preeminent researcher on the family processes that surround divorce."—Eleanor Maccoby, Stanford University "A welcome corrective to misleading and simplistic accounts...dispels the myth that divorce is always negative."—Ross D. Parke, University of California, Riverside

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