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

Second Chances: Men, Women and Children a Decade after Divorce
Judith S. Wallerstein Sandra Blakeslee

Retail Price: $10.95
Format: Paperback, 308pp.
ISBN: 0899199496
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company
Pub. Date: May 1996

Annotation
This national best-seller provides the first comprehensive examination of the long-term emotional, economic, and psychological impact of divorce.

From the Publisher
Second Chances, based on Judith Wallerstein's groundbreaking study of sixty families, has radically transformed the ways in which we think about divorce. A national bestseller, it is the first book to provide a comprehensive account of the long-term emotional, economic, and psychological effects of divorce - on adults and, most especially, on children. For anyone who is contemplating divorce, going through a divorce, or living in its aftermath, the candid and urgent stories gathered here are at once instructive and reassuring. With a new introduction that revisits some of the children in Second Chances who are now parents themselves, this eloquent and deeply moving classic belongs in every family's library.

Table of Contents

	Introduction
1	The Nature of Divorce	3
2	Getting in Touch: Ten Years Later	21
3	Nicholas and Christina Moore	35
4	Denise Moore: Playing the Queen of Hearts	54
5	Sammy Moore: Boys Leaving Home	71
6	Ruth Moore: Daughters and Mothers	94
7	The Legacy of Violence	113
8	Betty and Dale Burrelle	129
9	Seve Burrelle: Longing and Loss	145
10	Tanya Burrelle: Lonely Girls	161
11	Kyle Burrelle: The Youngest Child	173
12	The Overburdened Child	184
13	Rosemary and Bob Catalano	207
14	Billy Catalano: Sons and Fathers	229
15	Kelly Catalano: Modern Love Triangles	241
16	Joint Custody: The Newest Family Form	256
17	The Psychological Tasks of Divorce	277
18	On the Brow of the Hill	295
	Appendix: Method and Sample	309
	Acknowledgments	317
	Notes	319
	Index	323