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Dissolving Wedlockby Colin Gibson
Routledge 1993; US$ 59.95Forty five percent of marriages currently end in divorce. Colin Gibson explores the effects it has had on family patterns and presents a multi-disciplinary examination of all the socio-legal consequences of family breakdown. more...
The Unexpected Legacy of Divorceby Judith S. Wallerstein
Hyperion 2001; US$ 10.98Twenty-five years ago, Judith Wallerstein began talking to a group of 131 children whose parents were all going through a divorce. She asked them to tell her about the intimate details of their lives, which they did with remarkable candor. Having earned their trust, Wallerstein was rewarded with a deeply moving portrait of each of their lives as she followed them from childhood, through their adolescent struggles, and into adulthood. With <em>The Unexpected Legacy of Divorce</em>, Wallerstein offers us the only close-up study of divorce ever conducted -- a unique report that will change our fundamental beliefs about divorce and offer new hope for the future. <p>Wallerstein chooses seven children who most embody the common... more...
Unraveledby Maria Housden
Harmony 2005; US$ 9.99As a twelve-year-old girl, Maria Housden’s vision of a happy future included everything that society expects girls to yearn for: a home, a husband, and, of course, children. Life had other plans. Unraveled is Housden’s riveting and thoughtful story of how, after the death of her young daughter, she found the courage to break away from her role as a wife and stay-at-home mom and strike out on her own in search of a more fulfilling life. Leaving her three surviving children in the primary custody of her husband, Housden faced down the disbelief of friends and family and began a journey that would ultimately lead her not only to the truth about herself, but also to a deeper and more loving connection with her children. Housden... more...
Unofficial Guide to Getting a Divorceby Russell Wild; Susan Ellis Wild
John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2005; US$ 16.99The inside scoop... for when you want more than the official line! Sad. Mad. Scared. Stressed. Distraught. Distracted. Overwhelmed. Divorce dredges up so many emotions and entails so many financial and legal issues, it's difficult to stay rational and keep your life on track. This savvy, updated guide empowers you to take constructive steps toward a better future. It leads you through preparing for divorce, the process, legal issues, coping, sticky situations, and post-divorce financial and health-care issues. It tells you things attorneys and other advisors may not, and gives unbiased recommendations for negotiating the tricky issues of divorce while keeping your sanity. * Vital Information to help you protect your interests in a divorce... more...
Marriage, Money and Divorce in Medieval Islamic Societyby Yossef Rapoport; David Morgan
Cambridge University Press 2005; US$ 31.00Yossef Rapoport explores the prevalence of divorce in medieval Islamic society. In so doing, he reveals that women possessed a surprising level of economic independence which they manipulated to initiate divorce as often as men. The book makes a significant contribution to the social history of an understudied period. more...
Cruelty and Companionshipby A. James Hammerton
Routledge 1995; US$ 40.95original, imaginative and challenging...brings concerns together about gender, the family, and wider currents in British social, cultural and even political experience in the second half of the 19th century.' - Leonore Davidoff more...
Moving Beyond your Parents' Divorceby Mel Krantzler; Patricia Biondi Krantzler
McGraw-Hill 2003; US$ 19.95Mel Krantzler, Ph.D. is a psychologist and director of The Creative Divorce, Love, and Marriage Counseling Center. He is the author of several books, including the bestseller Creative Divorce . Patricia Biondi Krantzler is the author of The Heart of a Woman . Together, they have written several books, including The New Creative Divorce and The Seven Marriages of Your Marriage . They often appear on television and radio. more...
Debating Divorce in Italyby Mark Seymour
Palgrave Macmillan 2006; US$ 85.00Although the 1974 referendum settled Italy's 'divorce question,' the issues at the heart of that question remain central to modern politics. Using the debates over divorce as a lens, this book is a study of the quest to modernize Italy, Italians, and Italian marriage. more...
How to Sleep Alone in a King-Size Bedby Theo Pauline Nestor
Crown Publishing Group 2008; US$ 9.99“I feel like I’ve joined an enormous club, something like the Veterans of Foreign Wars. We are weary with battle fatigue and sometimes even gripped by nostalgia for the good old, bad old days, but our numbers are large,” writes Theo Pauline Nestor in this wry, fiercely honest chronicle of life after divorce. Less than an hour after confronting her husband over his massive gambling losses, Theo banishes him from their home forever. With two young daughters to support and her life as a stay-at-home mother at an abrupt end, Nestor finds herself slipping from “middle-class grace” as she attends a court-ordered custody class, stumbles through job interviews, and–much to her surprise–falls in love once... more...
Divorce in Psychosocial Perspectiveby Joseph Guttmann
Lawrence Erlbaum Associates 1993; US$ 85.00Many books deal with divorce and its aftermath -- some deal with the impact of divorce on children and families, others with the legal or sociological aspects of divorce, and a few focus on divorced mothers and fathers. Most of these books are characteriz more...