BETWEEN TWO WORLDS: THE INNER LIVES OF CHILDREN OF DIVORCE (CROWN)
Book ID/图书代码： 02740005B04761
English Summary/英文概要： An astonishing one quarter of adults between the ages of eighteen and thirty-five have grown up in divorced families. Now, as this generation comes of age, Between Two Worlds will speak to them like no other book.
Elizabeth Marquardt (together with sociologist Norval Glenn) conducted a pioneering new national study of the children of divorce, surveying 1,500 young adults from both divorced and intact families and interviewing more than seventy of them at length. In Between Two Worlds, she weaves the findings of that study together with powerful, unsentimental stories of the childhoods of young people from divorced families—as well as her own story of growing up as a child of divorce. She asks us to acknowledge that children are profoundly shaped by divorce, even though, as adults, they might be accomplished and seem “fine.” While many experts maintain that there are “good divorces,” praise the idea of “blended families,” and assure divorced parents that kids are resilient, Marquardt calls this “happy talk” and warns that it causes children to bury their real feelings.
The hard truth, she says, is that while divorce is sometimes necessary, there is no such thing as a good divorce. An amicable divorce is certainly better than a bitter one, but even amicable divorces sow lasting inner conflict in the lives of children. When a family breaks in two, children who stay in touch with both parents must travel between two worlds, trying alone to reconcile their parents’ often strikingly different beliefs, values, and ways of living. Even a “good divorce” restructures childhood itself.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 有为数1/4的年龄在18岁到35岁之间的成年人是在离异家庭中长大的,这个数字十分的惊人.现在因为这代人已经到了一个成年的阶段, Between Two Worlds这本书将不同于其他的书本,它将特别地写一些东西给这些读者.
Elizabeth Marquardt(和社会学家Norval Glenn)对全国离异家庭的儿童进行了一项试验性的新研究,,他调查了总共1500名分别来自离异家庭和完整家庭的成年人,并且与他们中70%的人进行了详细的面谈.在这本书中,他写下了这个调查的结果,,写了来自离异家庭的年轻人的那种顽强的,毫无感情的童年生活—和她自己作为来自一个离异家庭的孩子的成长经历..作者要我们承认:即使来自离异家庭的孩子可能很有成就或看上去很好,但他们的性格塑造还是深受离异的影响.而同时很多专家却认为.”好的离异”还是存在的,他们称赞”混合家庭”,并确信离异家庭的孩子更具有弹性.作者称这个为”太乐观的看法”,并指出离异会导致儿童埋藏他们的真实情感.
作者认为:一个很难接受的事实就是:虽然有时离婚是必要的,但是好的离异却是不存在的.友好的离异肯定比苦涩的要好,但是即使是友善的离异也会在孩子的心理埋下永远的内心冲突的种子.当一个家庭分裂成了二个,和父母都保持联系的孩子必须要往返于两个世界,独自试图去化解父母之间大相径庭的信仰,价值和生活方式,因此,即使是一个友好的利益也足以重新塑造一个孩子.
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About the Author/作者介绍： Elizabeth Marquardt is an affiliate scholar at the Institute for American Values, a nonpartisan think tank focused on children, families, and civil society. She is the coauthor of a groundbreaking study on college women’s attitudes about sex and dating on campus and has discussed her research on Today, All Things Considered, and numerous other television and radio shows. Her essays and op-ed pieces have appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, and elsewhere. She lives in Chicago with her husband and two children.
Elizabeth Marquardt 是美国一所研究价值学的机构的学者,她是个无党派.经常研究儿童,家庭,社会学.她也是研究大学女性对性和在大学校园里约会这个课题的作者之一,并且在Today ,All Things Considered和其他一些电视广播节目上发表讨论了她的研究.作者的文章也曾在New York Times, Washington Post, Chicago Tribune 和其他一些地方出现.作者现在和她的丈夫和两个孩子生活在芝加哥.
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