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Questions about how children fare in divided families have become as perplexing and urgent as they are common. In this work on custody arrangements, the developmental psychologist Eleanor Maccoby and the legal scholar Robert Mnookin consider these questions and their ramifications for society.
Author Notes
Eleanor Emmons Maccoby was born Viva Emmons in Tacoma, Washington on May 15, 1917. She received a bachelor's degree from the University of Washington and master's and doctorate degrees in experimental psychology from the University of Michigan. She taught and did research at Harvard University from 1950 to 1957. She taught at Stanford University from 1958 until her mandatory retirement at the age of 70 in 1987. She was the first woman to head the psychology department from 1973 to 1976.
She conducted research in child development and gender studies. She wrote or co-wrote several books including Patterns of Child Rearing written with Robert Sears, The Psychology of Sex Differences written with Carol Nagy Jacklin, and The Two Sexes: Growing Up Apart, Coming Together. She died from pneumonia on December 11, 2018 at the age of 101.
(Bowker Author Biography)
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Choice Review
This book is best compared with studies of divorce decision effects on ex-spouses and children. G. Spanier and L. Thompson's Parting (1984) narrowly views decisional aftermath in a Pennsylvania sample, in contrast to F. Furstenberg and A. Cherlin's Divided Families (CH, Sep'91), which presents empirically based policy speculation, thin both on law and on children. G. Koff's Love and the Law (1989) cites national cases and offers impressionistic assessment of effects on spouses and children. Closest to the work under review is L. Weitzman's Divorce Revolution (CH, Feb'86), which looks at law and socioeconomic effects in a still useful, "post-no-fault" California sample. Maccoby and Mnookin accent both effects on children and spouses and legal realities versus judicial hopes, and confirm the importance of building at least civil post-divorce relationships to smooth childhood emotional growth and mitigate the effects of custody patterns (cooperative, conflictive, disengaged). Their book makes profitable reading for general audiences, college students, lawyers, and social researchers. All levels. A. P. Bober; Southern Connecticut State University
Table of Contents
| Preface |
| 1 Introduction |
| 2 Understanding the Processes of Divorce |
| 3 Characteristics of the Families Studied |
| 4 Initial Residence and Visitation |
| 5 Child Custody: What Parents Want and Get |
| 6 The Economic Provisions of the Divorce Decree |
| 7 Conflict over the Terms of the Divorce Decree |
| 8 Continuity and Change in Children's Residence and Visitation |
| 9 Parenting and Co-parenting Apart |
| 10 Economic Changes over Time |
| 11 Facing the Dilemmas of Child Custody |
| Appendix A Supplementary Tables |
| Appendix B Methods |
| Notes |
| References |
| Index |
