• Includes cutting-edge research on how children are affected by multiple transitions in family structure and parenting arrangements during the divorce process • Covers the most common causes of divorce and how the family environment deteriorates during the years leading up to divorce • Provides easy-to-understand descriptions and examples of how specific research methods can be used to study divorce • Offers a dynamic theoretical model of divorce and how it is experienced by family members in a wide variety of family situations • Discusses policy implications as well as directions for future theoretical, research, and clinical work in this vital area is intended as a core textbook for use in upper-level undergraduate or graduate courses in Family Stress and Divorce, Dysfunctional Families, Sociology of the Family, and Couples, Marriage, and Family Counseling.