Coping With Divorce, Single Parenting, and Remarriage: A Risk and Resiliency Perspective

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ISBN: 9780805830828 | 0805830820
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 1/1/1999

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This book, written for scholars and practitioners alike, describes theoretical and research advances in the myriad complicated images of life for children and parents in families affected by divorce, remarriage, and single parenting.

Introduction and Overview

vii

PART I: WHY MARRIAGES SUCCEED OR FAIL

(44)

1 Predicting the Future of Marriages

(20)

Sybil Carrere

John M. Gottman

2 Black Couples, White Couples: The Early Years of Marriage

(24)

Terri L. Orbuch

Joseph Veroff

Andrea G. Hunter

PART II: CHILD ADJUSTMENT IN DIFFERENT FAMILY FORMS

(46)

3 Multiple Risks and Adjustment in Young Children Growing up in Different Family Settings: A British Community Study of Stepparent, Single Mother, and Nondivorced Families

(18)

Kirby Deater-Deckard

Judy Dunn

4 Family Structure, Parenting Practices, and Adolescent Adjustment: An Ecological Examination

(28)

Shelli Avenevoli

Frances M. Sessa

Laurence Steinberg

PART III: FAMILY FUNCTIONING AND CHILD ADJUSTMENT IN DIVORCED AND SINGLE-PARENT FAMILIES

(134)

5 Should We Stay Together for the Sake of the Children?

(24)

E. Mavis Hetherington

6 Father Absence and the Welfare of Children

117

(30)

Sara S. McLanahan

7 Children of Divorced Parents as Young Adults

147

(18)

Paul R. Amato

8 Young African American Multigenerational Families in Poverty: The Contexts, Exchanges, and Processes of Their Lives

165

(28)

P. Lindsay Chase-Lansdale

Rachel A. Gordon

Rebekah Levine Coley

Lauren S. Wakschlag

Jeanne Brooks-Gunn

9 Protective Factors in the Development of Preschool-Age Children of Young Mothers Receiving Welfare

193

(34)

Martha J. Zaslow

M. Robin Dion

Donna Ruane Morrison

Nancy Weinfield

John Ogawa

Patton Tabors

PART IV: FAMILY FUNCTIONING AND CHILD ADJUSTMENT IN REPARTNERED RELATIONSHIPS AND IN STEPFAMILIES

227

(96)

10 Contexts as Predictors of Changing Maternal Parenting Practices in Diverse Family Structures: A Social Interactional Perspective of Risk and Resilience

227

(26)

David S. DeGarmo

Marion S. Forgatch

11 From Marriage to Remarriage and Beyond: Findings From the Developmental Issues in StepFamilies Research Project

253

(20)

James H. Bray

12 A Social Constructionist Multi-Method Approach to Understanding the Stepparent Role

273

(22)

Mark A. Fine

Marilyn Coleman

Lawrence H. Ganong

13 The Dynamics of Parental Remarriage: Adolescent, Parent, and Sibling Influences

295

(28)

Edward R. Anderson

Shannon M. Greene

E. Mavis Hetherington

W. Glenn Clingempeel

PART V: INTERVENTION

323

(22)

14 Psychological Interventions for Separated and Divorced Families

323

(22)

Robert E. Emery

Katherine M. Kitzmann

Mary Waldron

Author Index

345

(10)

Subject Index

355

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Coping With Divorce, Single Parenting, and Remarriage: A Risk and Resiliency Perspective

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