Second Chances: Men, Women and Children a Decade after Divorce

by Sandra Blakeslee, Judith S. Wallerstein

Overview

A ten-year study of sixty middle-class families served as the basis for this book. Twenty-five years after the original breakup, Wallerstein discovers unexpected changes in the children, now mostly adults.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780899196480
Publisher:	Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Publication date:	01/19/1989
Pages:	352
Product dimensions:	6.50(w) x 1.50(h) x 9.50(d)

About the Author

Judith S. Wallerstein is the author, with the award-winning science writer Sandra Blakeslee, of the national bestsellers The Good Marriage; The Unexpected Legacy of Divorce; and, most recently, What About the Kids? One of the nation's leading experts on divorce, Wallerstein has appeared on Oprah,The Today Show, and Good Morning America.

Judith S. Wallerstein is the author, with the award-winning science writer Sandra Blakeslee, of the national bestsellers The Good Marriage; The Unexpected Legacy of Divorce; and, most recently, What About the Kids? One of the nation's leading experts on divorce, Wallerstein has appeared on Oprah,The Today Show, and Good Morning America.

Editorial Reviews

A beautiful piece of writing, full of insights that will prove indispensable to people contemplating divorce.

The New York Times

This study of 60 white, middle-class families that were tracked since 1971 is the largest such research project ever undertaken. PW called it ``a constructive, deeply moving report that offers a unique psychological roadmap of the long-term aftereffects of marital collapse.'' (Mar.)

Publishers Weekly - Publisher's Weekly

Having worked extensively with families in the midst of divorce, psychoanalyst Wallerstein is uniquely qualified to deal with the impact of divorce on the contemporary family. Basing her book on an authoritative and well-documented study of these families that she conducted over a ten-year period, she focuses on the heavy toll divorce takes on the children of divorcing families. She does an excellent job of giving the reader an inside look at the child's perspective on the loss of the intact family unit, though her title does promise a more positive outcome than she finally delivers. In fact, very few success stories are presented here--and that is the book's greatest weakness. Recommended for public, academic, and research libraries.-- Kim Banks, Columbia Univ. Libs.

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