\"Robert Emery casts a keen eye on the tangle of findings and opinions regarding childrenâ²s adaptation to divorce and presents a thoughtful, balanced discussion of what science can tell us about complex social phenomenon.\" --Contemporary Psychology This is an authoritative, research-based book on children and divorce. Completely updated with the most recent findings from psychology, sociology, economics, and the law, this second edition presents an integrated, multidisciplinary account of childrenâ²s experience of divorce, including historical, cultural, and detailed demographic perspectives. The author highlights childrenâ²s resilience, yet is sensitive to childrenâ²s pain throughout the divorce process and beyond. Robert E. Emery examines how childrenâ²s risk or resilience is predicted by interparental conflict, relationships with both parents, financial strain, legal/physical custody, and other factors. The author uses his family systems model to integrate research findings into a theoretical whole and to evaluate psychological interventions with divorcing and divorced families. Emery concludes with an incisive discussion of divorce law and policy, including a review of trends for the next decade of legal reform. First Edition was the recipient of Choice Magazineâ²s 1989 Outstanding Academic Book Award.
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