Gray Divorce (eBook)

What We Lose and Gain from Mid-Life Splits

Jocelyn Elise Crowley (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2018
232 Seiten
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-96811-0 (ISBN)

Infos

After 20, 30, or even 40 years of marriage, countless vacations, raising well-adjusted children, and sharing property and finances, what could go wrong? GrayDivorceis a provocative look at the rising rate of marital splits after the age of 50. Renowned author and researcher Jocelyn Elise Crowley uncovers the reasons why men and womendivorceand the penalties and benefits that they receive for their choices. From the outside, many may ask why couples in mid-life and readying for retirement choose to make a drastic change in their marital status. Yet, nearly one out of every four divorcesin the United States is ';gray.' With a deft eye, Crowley analyzes the differing experiences of women and men in this mid-life transitionthe seismic shift in individual priorities, the role of increased life expectancy, and how women are affected economically while men are affected socially. With a realistic yet passionate voice, Crowley shares the personal positive outlooks and the necessary supportive public policies that must be enacted to best help the newly divorced. Engaging and instructive,GrayDivorceis a must-read for anyone interested in contemporary American culture.

Inhalt

Acknowledgments

1. The Coming Tidal Wave of Gray Divorce
2. Before the Gray Divorce
3. Shortchanged: The Economic Gray Divorce Penalty
4. People Who Need People: The Social Gray Divorce Penalty
5. Moving Forward Personally
6. Moving Forward Publicly

Data Appendix by Marc D. Weiner, JD, PhD
Notes
Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 23.1.2018
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Entwicklungspsychologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie
• Schlagworte: Commitment • Divorce • divorcee • Economics • Finances • getting divorced • Growing Up • late in life • Late Stage • late stage divorce • Life Expectancy • Life Story • long term relationship • marital status • marriage • Marriage and family • mid life • Post Divorce • property • public policies • raising children • Realistic • real world • Reasons for divorce • Separation • Social Problems • Social Studies • vacation
• ISBN-10: 0-520-96811-5 / 0520968115
• ISBN-13: 978-0-520-96811-0 / 9780520968110