Out of Touch: When Parents & Children Lose Contact After Divorce

by Geoffrey L. Greif

Book Overview

The breakdown of the family has moved in recent years to the forefront of national consciousness. All manner of social ills, from poor academic performance to teenage drug use and gang crime, have been attributed to high divorce rates and the collapse of the traditional two-parent family. Targets of particularly harsh criticism are parents who lose all contact with their children after a divorce. So-called "deadbeat dads" are denounced in political...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195095359
• ISBN13: 9780195095357
• Release Date: April 1997
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.5"