Growing Up in Stepfamilies

ISBN-13: 9780198280965 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 348 str.

Barnes Gorell

Opis

The growth of stepfamilies has been one of the most dramatic changes in British family life in recent decades. Britain today has the highest divorce rate in Europe, and by the early 1990s one in twelve children in Britain were already living in stepfamilies. Stepfamilies formed by remarriage after death were once a common experience, but in the first half of this century, as parental death became more unusual, they became unfamiliar rarities, and much of the common understanding of their dynamics was lost. The recent very rapid growth in divorce and remarriage has exposed millions of adults and children to life situations which are surprisingly little understood, either at the level of common wisdom, or through research.

Recenzje

A key to the fascinating insights and provocative lessons of the book is that the authors include two family therapists, a psychiatrist, and a social scientist - a most unusual combination of talents and disciplinary approaches ... This is a wise book, full of thoughtful commentary as well as dramatic stories, scholarly and well referenced.