Dividing the Child

Social and Legal Dilemmas of Custody

By: Eleanor E. Maccoby, Robert H. Mnookin

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Paperback | 19 August 1998 | Edition Number 1

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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.

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An important book for those concerned with family policy: it clarifies the connections among various factors involved in the dissolution process with care and concern...[It] should...assist in refocusing divorce from reform efforts toward the difficult issues of enhancing cooperation and easing adjustments to lives after divorce. -- Alice Hearst Law and Politics Book Review Adds significantly to current knowledge about the roles of law, culture, and psychology in shaping the economic and parenting systems in postdivorce families...Gives a fascinating picture of divorce in process and the interplay between formal legal and informal practical arrangements. -- Barbara Bennett Woodhouse Contemporary Sociology

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Preface
Introduction
Understanding the Processes of Divorce
Characteristics of the Families Studied
Initial Residence and Visitation
Child Custody: What Parents Want and Get
The Economic Provisions of the Divorce Decree
Conflict over the Terms of the Divorce Decree
Continuity and Change in Children's Residence and Visitation
Parenting and Co-parenting Apart
Economic Changes over Time
Facing the Dilemmas of Child Custody
Supplementary Tables
Methods
Notes
References
Index
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