Divorce (Points of View)

by A . Mitchell (Author)

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  Hardcover
  1990

  $11.91

  This series aims to help teenagers make up their own minds on some of the most controversial contemporary issues around the world. The arguments on different sides of each issue are illustrated by means of quotations taken from a variety of different sources: government statistics, independent experts, public figures and people with personal experience of the subject. Readers are guided through the arguments by a running narrative that introduces the quotations and their sources and endeavours to put them into context. Facts and statistics on each subject are featured in information boxes throughout. Questions at the end of each chapter focus the reader's attention on the key areas of debate, and the series is intended as useful resource material for current affairs, history, politics and social studies courses. What does divorce mean? This book answers that question by examining the experiences of people who have gone through divorce. The author has drawn on many years of experience of marriage guidance counselling and writing about divorce to provide a concise selection of a broad range of views on this controversial topic. She has included extracts from many interviews that she has conducted over the years, and these are backed up by quotations from sociologists, legislators and religious figures from around the world. Chapters include: divorce around the world (including a look at customs in Hindu, Islamic and Chinese cultures); consequences of divorce (the effects on a person's financial state, housing, health, social status and feelings); divorce and children (personal views from children around the world); help (the legal, medical, counselling and informal support the people need and may or may not receive); remarriage (Is it a good idea? - experiences of those who have started new marriages). The author has written several other books for teenagers on the subject of divorce and separation, including Someone To Turn To , Children in the Middle , Coping with Separation and Divorce and When Parents Split Up . Previously she worked as a marriage guidance counsellor and as a research sociologist at Edinburgh University.