How the Sexual Revolution is Killing Family, Marriage and Sex, was published by Bonus Books in 1989. Currently an affiliate scholar at the Institute for American Values, Gallagher has worked as an article editor of National Review, senior editor of the Manhattan Institute's City Journal, and as a senior fellow at the Center for Social Thought. In the latter debate, Judith Wallerstein, a clinical research psychologist, has been one of the most influential voices.
Kids are resilient.
My own belief is that the effects on the children should be one of the considerations, albeit minor. For some, the trauma never ends. Parents thus have an obligation to recognize the pain they will cause their children by divorce, to avoid it if possible, and to take every step to minimize it afterward. Dr. Wallerstein's clinical work has been increasingly backed by large national studies that confirm the damage divorce can cause. So imagine Wallerstein's surprise when she woke up Saturday morning to find the lead author of the above-mentioned study, Andrew Cherlin, personally attacking her in a speech before the American Population Association, which was reprinted in The New York Times.