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Black men and divorce / Erma Jean Lawson, Aaron Thompson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lawson, Erma Jean.
- Series:
- Understanding families ; v. 15.
- Understanding families ; v. 15
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Divorce--United States.
- Divorce.
- African American men--Family relationships.
- African American men.
- United States.
- African American men--Psychology.
- African American families.
- Physical Description:
- x, 259 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publications, [1999]
- Summary:
- This book draws on in-depth interviews with 50 working and middle-class Black men to chronicle and analyze their passage from courtship and marriage to divorce, and ultimately to the establishment of a new life.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Forming marital bonds
- Correlates of marital separation and divorce
- The divorce experience
- Divorce-related stressors
- Postmarital relationships
- Strategies for coping with divorce
- The construction of fatherhood
- Divorce and fatherhood
- Conclusion.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 234-253) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0803959540
- 0803959559
- OCLC:
- 40135224
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