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Third Thoughts on Divorce.('For Better or for Worse: Divorce Reconsidered)
For Better or For Worse: Divorce Reconsidered, by E. Mavis Hetherington and John Kelly (Norton, 307 pp., $26.95)
E. Mavis Hetherington is one of the nation's most respected research psychologists. Her new book (with writer John Kelly) has been marketed as a rebuttal to divorce critics, who -- she believes -- have overestimated the negative effects of divorce and downplayed its benefits.
All the headlines have gone to Hetherington's bottom line: The majority of children of divorce, she reassures worried parents, are functioning in the normal range 20 years later: "Most were successfully going about the chief tasks of young adulthood: establishing ...
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