Dividing the Child: Social and Legal Dilemmas of Custody

by Eleanor Emmons Maccoby and Robert Mnookin

Book Overview

Questions about how children fare in divided families have become as perplexing and urgent as they are common. In this landmark work on custody arrangements, the developmental psychologist Eleanor Maccoby and the legal scholar Robert Mnookin examine the social and legal realities of how divorcing parents make arrangements for their children.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674212959
• ISBN13: 9780674212954
• Release Date: August 1998
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

A great look at children and custody

I read this book in a developmental psychology course and it really made me think about divorce and custody issues. Maccoby presents some compelling points regarding children's decisions, the tendency to award custody to mothers, the more recent popularity of joint custody and arrangements made by the parents themselves. It will give you a good background on the history of custody decisions as well as what has happened more recently.