The Love They Lost [PB] : Living with the Legacy of Our Parents' Divorce / Stephanie Staal.
Format:
[PB] :
Publisher:
Random HouseIncorporated Distributor,
Copyright Date:
2000
Description:
246p.
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Summary:
Publisher Fact Sheet In the 1960s, '70s, & '80s, a sociological shift occurred on par with the Baby Boom--it was the divorce explosion, when the rate of broken marriages surged. The children who came of age then have been labeled Generation X, but they could also be called Generation Ex. Their lives were changed forever by the failure of their parents' marriages, but they have never had a voice of their own--until now. Twenty-eight-year-old Stephanie Staal witnessed her parents' marriage dissolve when she was a teenager, but it was another ten years before she confronted the ongoing impact of their divorce on her adult life, & sought out others like herself. THE LOVE THEY LOST draws on Staal's interviews with more than one hundred twenty- & thirtysomething individuals of the "divorce generation." Using a more intimate approach than Judith Wallerstein's bestselling sociological study, The Unexpected Legacy of Divorce, Staal creates an impassioned portrait of shared childhood pain & adult struggles with intimacy & commitment that is at once courageous & poignant, & ultimately hopeful. Annotation Stephanie Staal's parents divorced when she was thirteen. But it wasn't until years later that she realized the devastating impact of her parents' divorce on her own search for love. <BR>She sought help. There was none. So she wrote the book she was looking for: a personal history of, by, and for the first generation of divorce. <BR>Drawing on extensive interviews with one hundred and twenty adult children of divorce, The Love They Lost gives voice to their struggle to reconcile the emotional blueprints their parents left them with the lives they want to build as adults. <BR>Here we meet men and women from all walks of life who share painful common ground: They are all living with the legacy of their parents' divorce. What emerges, as they tell their compelling stories, are profound new insights that will resonate with anyone dealing with the wide-ranging consequences of divorce ... how abandonment and betrayal, both real and perceived, impact adult relationships and careers ... what happens whenmoney becomes a substitute for love ... healing ways to move forward while living with the past. <BR>Weaving reporting and memoir, storytelling and social observation, The Love They Lost is essential reading for every adult child of divorce who longs to make peace with the past and build a rewarding life -- and for everyone who cares about the future of the American family.
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