Second Chances: Men, Women, and Children a Decade After Divorce: Who Wins and Who Loses 2nd and Why

Second Chances, based on Judith Wallerstein's groundbreaking study of sixty families, has radically transformed the ways in which we think about divorce. A national bestseller, it is the first book to provide a comprehensive account of the long-term emotional, economic, and psychological effects of divorce - on adults and, most especially, on children. For anyone who is contemplating divorce, going through a divorce, or living in its aftermath, the candid and urgent stories gathered here are at once instructive and reassuring. With a new introduction that revisits some of the children in Second Chances who are now parents themselves, this eloquent and deeply moving classic belongs in every family's library.Judith Wallerstein is the author of 'Second Chances: Men, Women, and Children a Decade After Divorce: Who Wins and Who Loses 2nd and Why', published 1990 under ISBN 9780899199498 and ISBN 0899199496.