
Out of Touch
When Parents and Children Lose Contact After Divorce
Geoffrey L. Greif(Author)
Oxford University Press Inc
Published on 5. June 1997
Book
Hardback
256 pages
978-0-19-509535-7 (ISBN)
Description
Why do parents stop having contact with their children after separation and divorce? How does this falling out of touch affect them and their children, and what can noncustodial parents do to maintain contact? This book offers a new perspective for parents who are "out of touch" by exploring what the loss of contact means in their lives as well as the lives of their children. Greif presents the portraits of parents pushed away by the other parent or by their children after painful and emotional divorces. He discusses the emotional, legal and public policy issues involved for divorced parents and their children.
Reviews / Votes
"Geoffery Greif's Out of Touch is a powerful book that captures the complexity of a common and many-sided domestic drama. Greif manages to evoke empathy for all involved, mothers, fathers and children, while effectively illustrating the different issues each confronts. The narratives are vivid enough to detail the many twists and turns that lead one parent to 'lose touch,' and Greif's analysis is rich enough to stand alone. Together, complemented byinsightful policy recommendations, they make for a book that anyone who has personal or professional interest in what happens to families after divorce will want to read."--Theodore Cohen, Ohio Wesleyan
University
"In Out of Touch, Dr. Greif continues as the harbinger for single parents.... I found the concrete self-help actions based on 180 responses and the interviews conducted to be most helpful both as a social worker and a single parent. He also astutely provides children caught between parents with 10 helpful suggestions of how they might get back in touch with their parents or at least themselves."--Susan C. Tebb, Professor at the School of Social
Service, Saint Louis University
"Geoffrey Greif's Out of Touch is a powerful book that captures the complexity of a common and many-sided domestic drama. Greif manages to evoke empathy for all involved, mothers, fathers and children, while effectively illustrating the different issues each confronts. The narratives are vivid enough to detail the many twists and turns that lead one parent to 'lose touch,' and Greif's analysis is rich enough to stand alone. Together, complemented by
insightful policy recommendations, they make for a book that anyone who has personal or professional interest in what happens to families after divorce will want to read."--Theodore Cohen, Ohio Wesleyan
University
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
With dust jacket
Dimensions
Height: 241 mm
Width: 162 mm
Thickness: 29 mm
Weight
544 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-509535-7 (9780195095357)
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E-Book
04/1997
1st Edition
OUP eBook
€10.99
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Person
Geoffrey L. Greif is Associate Dean and Professor at the School of Social Work at the University of Maryland at Baltimore.
Author
Associate Professor of Social WorkAssociate Professor of Social Work, University of Maryland, Baltimore, USA