Her father's jewelry box had disappeared from its usual spot on her parents' bureau. Worse, her mother was still in bed. She began to sob. And even though Joanne is 40 now, a married Los Angeles homemaker with children of her own, she clearly remembers what she did next that day. Her vision blurred by tears, she searched through the house that was suddenly not a home for the jewelry box that wasn't there.
Some children cope well and thrive.
But taken as a group, the children of divorce are at serious risk. But neither would have been published because nobody needed to be told that marriage is a good idea and divorce a bad one. Facts, and the times, have changed. And in our present culture, it is not yet clear that the message of either book will prove persuasive. And as any academic expert reading Judith Wallerstein's book on divorce will know, a lot of scholars do not think divorce is such a bad idea.