Dividing the child

Social and Legal Dilemmas of Custody

Pages: 416
Published: 1992
Language: English

This landmark work by developmental psychologist Eleanor Maccoby and legal scholar Robert Mnookin examines how children fare in divided families. Based on a three-year study of over one thousand divorcing families, the book explores how custody arrangements are reached and evolve over time. It considers various custody types, including joint and father custody, and identifies different co-parenting patterns among families where children spend time in both households.

Prose complexity: 10/10

Informative Intellectual Complex

Law Psychology Sociology

Authors

Eleanor E. Maccoby

Eleanor E. Maccoby was a prominent psychologist whose research explored child development, gender identity, and the impact of divorce on families. Her key works, such as Dividing the Child, Adolescents After Divorce, and Psychologie der Geschlechter, examine these complex areas of human psychology.