ABSTRACT
This Handbook presents up-to-date scholarship on the causes and predictors, processes, and consequences of divorce and relationship dissolution. Featuring contributions from multiple disciplines, this Handbook reviews relationship termination, including variations depending on legal status, race/ethnicity, and sexual orientation. The Handbook focuses on the often-neglected processes involved as the relationship unfolds, such as infidelity, hurt, and remarriage. It also covers the legal and policy aspects, the demographics, and the historical aspects of divorce. Intended for researchers, practitioners, counselors, clinicians, and advanced students in psychology, sociology, family studies, communication, and nursing, the book serves as a text in courses on divorce, marriage and the family, and close relationships.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |11 pages
Introduction
part |70 pages
Demographic and Historical Aspects of Divorce and Relationship Dissolution
part |204 pages
Causes, Underlying Processes, and Antecedents of Divorce and Relationship Dissolution
part |120 pages
Consequences of Divorce and Relationship Dissolution
part |72 pages
Coping With Divorce and Relationship Dissolution
part |52 pages
Variations in Divorce and Relationship Dissolution Patterns and Processes
part |72 pages
Policy Issues Pertaining to Divorce and Relationship Dissolution
part |25 pages
Commentaries