Dividing the Child

Informationen zum Autor Eleanor E. Maccoby is Barbara Kimball Browning Professor of Psychology, Emerita, at the Clayman Institute for Gender Research, Stanford University. Robert H. Mnookin is the Samuel Williston Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and the Director of the Harvard Negotiation Research Project. Before joining the Harvard faculty, he was the Adelbert H. Sweet Professor of Law at Stanford Law School and the Director of the Stanford Center on Conflict and Negotiation. He has served as a consultant to governments and international agencies and is the author of Bargaining with the Devil: When to Negotiate and When to Fight . Klappentext Questions about how children fare in divided families have become as perplexing and urgent as they are common. In this landmark work on custody arrangements, the developmental psychologist Eleanor Maccoby and the legal scholar Robert Mnookin examine the social and legal realities of how divorcing parents make arrangements for their children. Zusammenfassung Questions about how children fare in divided families have become as perplexing and urgent as they are common. In this landmark work on custody arrangements! the developmental psychologist Eleanor Maccoby and the legal scholar Robert Mnookin examine the social and legal realities of how divorcing parents make arrangements for their children. 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

Product details

• Authors: Eleanor Maccoby, Eleanor E. Maccoby, Eleanor E. (Professor Emeritus of Psychology MacCoby, Maccoby Eleanor E., Robert Mnookin, Robert H. Mnookin, Mnookin Robert H.
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.1994
• EAN: 9780674212954
• ISBN: 978-0-674-21295-4
• No. of pages: 388
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 232 mm x 24 mm
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; USA, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Marriage & Family, LAW / Family Law / General, Sociology: family & relationships, Family Law, United States of America, USA, Sociology: family and relationships