At time when separation and divorce are increasingly common, this book supplies much-needed insights into why some children survive change in families better th

Provides advice on coping with such family changes as separation, divorce, remarriage, new family members, and new schools.

All families change over time. Sometimes a baby is born, or a grown-up gets married. And sometimes a child gets a new foster parent or a new adopted mom or dad.

Stephanie Coontz, the author of The Way We Never Were, now turns her attention to the mythology that surrounds today’s family—the demonizing of “untraditi

This book offers an up-to-the-moment assessment of the condition of the American family in an era of growing inequality.