BOOK OF THE WEEK
Dissecting Divorce
A new book by Elizabeth Marquardt offers a child's-eye-view of divorce.
Reviewed by Jenny Schroedel | posted 10/25/2005 08:45AM

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Related Elsewhere:
Between Two Worlds is available from Amazon.com and other book retailers.
BetweenTwoWorlds.org has extensive information about the book, including full survey data and the author's blog.
The Institute for American Values has an audio presentation on Marquardt's book, Marquardt's annotated bibliography of books on children of divorce, a report by Marquardt on college women's dating habits, an essay on college men's dating attitudes, and other items.
The publisher has more information on the book, including an excerpt.
More articles on children of divorce from Christianity Today and our sister publications includes:
Coping with Christmas | For adult children of divorced parents, the holidays aren't as happy as they are supposed to be. Author Jen Abbas has some advice. (Christianity Today, Dec. 22, 2004)
The Children's Story of Divorce | Liberation is the dominant theme in the adult literature on divorce. Children's books tell a different story. (Books & Culture, Sep/Oct 1997)
Children of Divorce | If your parents' marriage failed and you're worried yours might do the same, here are steps to calm the fears (Marriage Partnership, Spring 2000)
What Children of Divorce Really Think | And how you can help (Christian Reader, May/June 1997)
More articles on divorce are available in our family hot issues section.
For book lovers, our 2005 CT book awards are available online, along with our book awards for 2004, 2003, 2002, 2001, 2000, 1999, 1998, and 1997, as well as our Books of the Twentieth Century. For other coverage or reviews, see our Books archive and the weekly Books & Culture Corner.
Books & Culture Corner and Books & Culture's Book of the Week, from Christianity Today sister publication Books & Culture: A Christian Review (want a free trial issue?), appears regularly on Tuesdays at Christianity Today. Earlier editions include:
Heavenly Real Estate | A geography of art in New York at the midpoint of the 20th century. (Oct. 18, 2005)
Narnia Etc. | A chronicle of reading. (Oct. 11, 2005)
How Wide the Divide? | A proposal for compromise between "value evangelicals" and "legal secularists" on church-state issues. (Sept. 13, 2005)
Poet with Three Heads Talks with King Solomon | Conversation touches on Hebrew parallelism, marriage, and the making of many books. (Aug. 30, 2005)
With God on Our Side | David McCullough's account of the pivotal year 1776 has resonance for Americans in 2005. (July 19, 2005)
The Rich Are Differentand Not So Differentfrom Us | Think you're burned out on memoirs? Read this book. (June 28, 2005)
A Grief Observed | Exploring the valley of the shadow in two literary lives. (June 13, 2005)
The Mind and Soul of Combat | Perhaps war really is hell. (June 07, 2005)
The Universal Language | If Latin died in our mouths, we'd just stop talking. (May 24, 2005)
At Home in the Dark | The first new book of poems in almost twenty years from Rod Jellema. (May 17, 2005)
"Taken Up in Glory" | The Ascension has been forgotten in many Protestant churches, jettisoning an essential part of the Christian story. (May 10, 2005)