ENABLING CHILDREN OF DIVORCE TO WIN |
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| Authors: | Lita Linzer Schwartz |
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| Institution: | Lita Linzer Schwartz is Professor of Educational Psychology at Pennsylvania State University, Ogontz Campus. She is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association, Divisions 41 and 43, and holds a Diplomate in Forensic Psychology from the American Board of Professional Psychology. Among her numerous publications are;The Dynamics of Divorce (1987), coauthored with Florence W. Kaslow, and Alternatives to Infertility: Is Surrogacy the Answer?(1991). |
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| Abstract: | Divorce mediators, attorneys, judges, and psychologists approach the issues in marriage dissolution from disparate vantage points. Legal niceties, actuarial acrobatics, and egosaving mechanisms tend to dominate the proceedings. Too often, however, some of the professionals have neither the training nor the experience to recognize the potential impact of such decisions on the children of divorce. The children rarely have an advocate whose sole task it is to make certain that their "best interests" are truly served. Questions are raised and suggestions for research are offered in an effort to reduce children's victimization and enable them to emerge as winners. |
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