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A Generation at Risk : Growing Up in an Era of Family Upheaval
A Generation at Risk Growing Up in an Era of Family Upheaval Author:Paul R. Amato, Alan Booth This book offers a clear picture of how young Americans have been affected by the tremendous domestic changes of the last three decades. Based on a fifteen-year study begun in 1980, the book considers parents' socioeconomic resources, their gender roles and relations, and the quality of their marriages. It also examines children's relations with... more » their parents, their social affiliations, and their psychological well-being. The authors provide rare insight into how both familial and historical contexts affect young people as they make the transition to adulthood. "An important book...Paul Amato and Alan Booth painstakingly analyze data from a large national sample of families, seeking especially to isolate the independent effects of divorce on children from the effects of preexisting marital conflict. The results call into question the rationalizations of our high divorce rate...Because of this book, we also will have a more informed discussion of the moral dimensions of the decision to divorce. Amato and Booth have helped us to recognize more clearly the potential conflicts between parental responsibility and adult desires for freedom, romance, sexual gratification and self-actualization." —Norval D. Glenn and David Blankenhorn, Los Angeles Times "Will frame scholarly discussions of parent-child dynamics for many years." —Larry R. Peterson, History« less