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Mom's House, Dad's House: Making Two Homes for Your Child by Isolina Ricci  (33)

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From Library Journal
Expect a big promotional effort on this book, which argues that sometimes divorce isn't so bad for the children-if you follow a few simple rules.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

From Booklist
Nothing is likely to make divorce pleasant or easy, but Ahrons' landmark longitudinal study of randomly selected postdivorce families offers hope that splitting spouses may be able to handle their breakup in a way that will permit both "adults and children [to] emerge at least as emotionally well as they were before the divorce." Ahrons blends insights from her own research and a cross-national European study as well as 25 years as a therapist to dispel myths, establish useful typologies, articulate the challenges divorcing spouses face, and suggest steps to make a "good divorce" more likely. Central to Ahrons' analysis is the recognition that what she calls "binuclear families" are now more common in the United States (and some other industrialized nations) than the traditional two-adults-with-children model. In either of these structures, "the psychological health of the children depends hugely on the way the spouses--or exspouses [sic]--get along." Though "family values" fundamentalists will object to the idea that "binuclear families" can ever be normal and healthy, The Good Divorce offers advice and explanations to troubled couples for whom "staying together for the sake of the children" is not a healthy or viable option. Mary Carroll --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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MY OLDER DAUGHTER got married twenty-five years after her father and I divorced. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
three years postdivorce, binuclear family, five years postdivorce, angry associates, fiery foes, binuclear families, mutual children, aftermath transition, good divorce, postdivorce relationship, legal divorce, limited partnership agreement, emotional divorce, decision transition Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Cooperative Colleagues, Fiery Foes, Angry Associates, Binuclear Family Study, United States, Perfect Pals, Dissolved Duos, New Assumption, The New Yorker Magazine, Margaret Mead New!
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