02791oam 2200613 a 450 991080927560332120200520144314.0979-84-00-60704-21-282-42047-X97866124204740-313-34601-110.5040/9798400607042(CKB)1000000000765685(EBL)492229(OCoLC)609857917(SSID)ssj0000097550(PQKBManifestationID)11140201(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000097550(PQKBWorkID)10113780(PQKB)11369981(Au-PeEL)EBL492229(CaPaEBR)ebr10323623(CaONFJC)MIL242047(MiAaPQ)EBC492229(DLC)BP9798400607042BC(EXLCZ)99100000000076568520240214e20082024 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrAdult children of divorce confused love seekers /Geraldine K. Piorkowski1st ed.Westport, Conn. :Praeger Publishers,2008.London :Bloomsbury Publishing (UK),20241 online resource (208 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-313-34600-3 Includes bibliographical references and index.The fragility of love -- Which love is love? -- Love's poor choices -- The fears and risks of love -- Too few cultural alternatives to love -- Role models of romantic love in popular culture -- Love by arrangement -- Love marriages around the world -- Lost in the land of married love.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 Adult children of divorced parentsFamily relationshipsAdult children of divorced parentsPsychologyAdult children of divorced parentsFamily relationships.Adult children of divorced parentsPsychology.155.9/24Piorkowski Geraldine K1645102DLCDLCBOOK9910809275603321Adult children of divorce3991373UNINA