Adult children of divorce [[electronic resource] ] : confused love seekers / / Geraldine K. Piorkowski

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910455531603321
• Autore: Piorkowski Geraldine K
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Westport, Conn., : Praeger Publishers, 2008
• ISBN: 1-282-42047-X; 9786612420474; 0-313-34601-1
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (208 p.)
• Disciplina: 155.9/24
• Soggetti: Adult children of divorced parents - Psychology; Adult children of divorced parents - Family relationships; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [157]-182) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1 The Fragility of Love; Chapter 2 Which Love Is Love?; Chapter 3 Love's Poor Choices; Chapter 4 The Fears and Risks of Love; Chapter 5 Too Few Cultural Alternatives to Love; Chapter 6 Role Models of Romantic Love in Popular Culture; Chapter 7 Love by Arrangement; Chapter 8 Love Marriages Around the World; Chapter 9 Lost in the Land of Married Love; Notes; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Romantic love is often an elusive, fragile, and tenuous state, difficult to maintain across time. The rates of divorce, re-divorce, relationship violence, and abuse today attest to the face we are failing at romantic love. And for teen-aged and adult children of divorce, romantic love can be especially elusive. Because they have no roadmap for a satisfying, stable romatic relationship derived from their own parents, they are confused by what love is and tend to make poor partner choices. Borrowing heavily from popular culture for unrealistic standards regarding love, they become disillusioned