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"Marriage and Divorce American Style" by E. Mavis Hetherington

E- Mavis Hetherington

Hetherington is a professor of psychology at the University of Virginia, where she teaches courses on such topics as childhood psychopathology, personality and social development, and stress and coping in families. She earned a Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of California at Berkeley and has since established a distinguished career in higher education. She has authored a number of books on the topic of child development, including The Separate Social World of Siblings and Family Transitions, and has co-authored a book on the effects of divorce, titled For Better or For Worse: Divorce Reconsidered. Hetherington also has served as past President of Division 7, the Developmental Psychology Division of the American Psychological Association, editor of Child Development, and most recently as associate editor of the Journal of Child Psychology.



Author Links
Review of For Better or For Worse
For Better or For Worse (summary of findings)
Biography (Review)
How Are the Children of Divorce Doing? (Review)
Americans for Divorce Reform, Inc.
The Divorce Center
Dad’s Against the Divorce Industry
Children and Divorce, AACAP Facts for Families #1

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