New Light on the Divorce Transition

Dominique Dessertine , Divorcer à Lyon sous la Révolution et l’Empire ( Lyon: Presses Universitaires de Lyon, 1981); Lawrence Stone , The Road to Divorce: England 1530-1987 (Oxford: Oxford University Press , 1990); Lawrence Stone , Broken Lives: Separation and Divorce in England, 1660-1857 (New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1993).

Roderick Phillips , Putting Asunder: A History of Divorce in Western Society ( Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1988).

Norma Basch , Framing American Divorce: From the Revolutionary Generation to the Victorians (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1999); Richard A. Chused , Private Acts in Public Places: A Social History of Divorce in the Formative Era of American Family Law (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1994); Nancy F. Cott , Public Vows: A History of Marriage and the Nation (Cambridge , Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2002); Hendrik Hartog , Man and Wife in America: A History (Harvard University Press, 2002); Glenda Riley , Divorce: An American Tradition ( New York: Oxford University Press, 1991).

The divorce literature is briefly referred to as the papers of this divorce issue are introduced and discussed below, because the authors themselves delve deeper into the theoretical issues and findings that are following highlighted.

For example, Amy E. Rodrigues , Julie H. Hall , and Frank D. Fincham , ‘‘What Predicts Divorce and Relationship Dissolution?’’ in Handbook of Divorce and Relationship Dissolution, ed. Mark A. Fine and John H. Harvey ( Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates Publishers , 2006), 85-112; William J. Goode , World Revolution and Family Patterns (New York: The Free Press, 1970).

William J. Goode , ‘‘Economic Factors and Marital Stability,’’ American Sociological Review 16, no. 6 (1951): 802-12; William J. Goode , ‘‘Marital Satisfaction and Instability: A Cross-Cultural Class Analysis of Divorce Rates,’’ International Social Science Journal 14, no. 3 (1962): 507-26.

Phillips, Putting Asunder, 592-94; Matthijs Kalmijn and Anne-Rigt Poortman, ‘‘His or Her Divorce? The Gendered Nature of Divorce and its Determinants,’’ European Sociological Review 22, no. 2 (2006): 201-14; William J. Goode, World Revolution and Family Patterns (New York: The Free Press, 1970), 29-30.

Stephanie Coontz , Marriage, A History: From Obedience to Intimacy, or How Love Conquered Marriage (New York: Viking Press, 2005).

Michael Grossberg , ‘‘Crossing Boundaries: Nineteenth-Century Domestic Relations Law and the Merger of Family and Legal History,’’ American Bar Foundation Research Journal 10, no. 4 (1985): 799-847, quotation, 800.

Constance L. Shehan , Felix M. Berardo , Erica Owens , and Donna H. Berardo , ‘‘Alimony: An Anomaly in Family Social Science,’’ Family Relations 51, no. 4 (2002): 308-16, quotation, 308.

Phillips, Putting Asunder, 590-91.

Paul R. Amato , ‘‘Research on Divorce: Continuing Trends and New Developments,’’ Journal of Marriage and Family 72, no. 3 (2010): 650-66; P. Lindsay Chase-Landale , Andrew J. Cherlin , and Kathleen E. Kiernan , ‘‘The Long-Term Effects of Parental Divorce on the Mental Health of Young Adults: A Developmental Perspective,’’ Child Development 66, no. 6 (1995): 1614-635; Helen Hansagi , Lena Brandt , and Sven Andréasson , ‘‘Parental Divorce: Psychological Well-Being, Mental Health and Mortality during Youth and Young Adulthood,’’ European Journal of Public Health 10, no. 2 ( 2000): 86-92; Sara McLanahan and Gary D. Sandefur , Growing up with a Single Parent: What Hurts? What Helps? ( Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1994): Wendy Sigle-Rushton , John Hobcraft , and Kathleen Kiernan , ‘‘Parental Divorce and Subsequent Disadvantage: A Cross-Cohort Comparison,’’ Demography 42, no. 3 (2005): 427-46.