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What About the Kids?: Raising Your Children Before, During, and After Divorce Read
about Dr. Judith Wallerstein's new book!
Judith Wallerstein has studied the effects of divorce on children and their parents, for thirty years earning an international reputation as the major authority and spokesperson for these families.
Click here for a list of books written by Judith Wallerstein.
Dr. Judith Wallerstein?s recent book, The Unexpected Legacy of Divorce: A 25-Year Landmark Study,
returns to the young people of the original California Children of Divorce study, now in their adult years, and completes their stories.
Her California Children of Divorce Study provided the groundbreaking research that forced America to take a good look at children and parents at the separation and during the years that followed and to document the many expected and unexpected changes in their lives.
Her findings include careful observations on parents choices in custody and visitation that were helpful to the children at different ages and those that were obstacles to their healthy development.
She established the Judith Wallerstein Center for the Family in Transition, which has become a nationally acclaimed center for research, education and counseling for families in separation, divorce and remarriage. Since the Center's founding in 1980, over 6000 children and their divorced or remarried parents have been served.
From 1966 to 1992, Dr. Wallerstein was Senior Lecturer at the School of Social Welfare, University of California at Berkeley, where she taught graduate students how to work with troubled children and their parents in intact and divorced homes.
She has taught and lectured all over the world, to attorneys, judges, pediatricians, educators and mental health professionals.
Dr. Wallerstein has testified on behalf of children and families before committees of the California State and US Senates, and has been a consultant for groups ranging from Sesame Street to the International Psychoanalytical Association.
Over the years, Wallerstein has won numerous awards for her innovative work and is listed in Who's Who in Women of America and Who's Who in Science.
The results of Judith Wallerstein's groundbreaking investigations of marriage and divorce have been widely published in scientific journals, popular magazines, and in three best selling books that have been translated into more than 13 languages.
Her first book, written with Dr. Joan Kelly, Surviving the Breakup: How Children and Parents Cope with Divorce (New York, Basic Books, 1980), and her second book, Second
Changes: Men, Women and Children a Decade After Divorce, co-authored with Sandra Blakeslee (New York, Ticknor & Field, 1989), are the acknowledged standard reference works on divorcing families.
Both books describe with clarity and compassion how children of different ages respond to divorce at the time of the breakup and during the years that follow. Parents learn what to expect from their children and how to deal with issues that arise as well as about the short- and long-term changes in parent-child relationships that occur with the divorced and remarried family.
The information in these books has formed the basis for working with groups for divorcing parents and their children that are now offered by courts throughout the country. They provide practical parental guidance at the time of the breakup and over the years that follow, as the children grow older and new relationships within the family-parents' new lovers or spouses, new stepparents, and often new divorces-shape their young lives.
Inspired by her continuing concern for the state of modern marriages, Dr. Wallerstein's third book, The Good Marriage: How and Why Love Lasts (with Sandra Blakeslee; Houghton Mifflin, 1995) offered an intimate portrait, from his-and-her perspectives, of 50 solid, long-lasting marriages, and spelled out the nine tasks which make for marital success.
Judith Wallerstein's most recent book returns to the young people in the original California Children of Divorce study, now in their adult years, and completes their stories.
The Unexpected Legacy of Divorce: A 25-Year Landmark Study (written with Dr. Julia Lewis and Sandra Blakeslee) describes the feelings, expectations and memories of their parents' divorce that these children carry into adulthood, especially in their own relationships-love, marriage, cohabitation, divorce, and becoming parents themselves.
Now that they are grown up, how do they feel about their parents' divorce? Are they angry? Are they forgiving? Will they be willing to take care of their aging parents and stepparents? Will they lead their own lives differently?
In this latest book, to be published in September 2000 (New York, Hyperion Press), we finally gain vital knowledge about the long-term effects of divorce on children as well as answers to the painful questions unhappy parents ask themselves: Should we divorce? Or should we stay together for the sake of the children? Only now, with the perspective of 25 years of real life experience and observation, can we shed light on the answers we need.
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