ERIC Number: ED278906
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 1987
Pages: 185
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Divorce: The Impact on Children and Families. Hearing before the Select Committee on Children, Youth, and Families. House of Representatives, Ninety-Ninth Congress, Second Session (June 19, 1986).
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Select Committee on Children, Youth, and Families.
This document contains witness testimonies and prepared statements from the Congressional hearing called to examine the impact of divorce on children and families. Opening statements are included from Congressmen George Miller, Dan Coats, and Thomas Bliley. Witnesses providing testimony include: (1) Laurie Dixon, managing editor of "The Pitch" and student at Walter Johnson High School in Bethesda, Maryland; (2) Judith S. Wallerstein, executive director of the Center for the Family in Transition, Corte Madera, California; (3) Gene H. Brody, codirector of the Program for the Study of Competence in Children and Families; (4) Neil Kalter, associate professor, Departments of Psychology and Psychiatry, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; (5) Nancy D. Polikoff, director, Child Custody and Child Support Projects, Women's Legal Defense Fund; (6) David L. Levy, president, National Council for Children's Rights; (7) Lenore J. Weitzman, associate professor of sociology, Stanford University; (8) Severa Austin, director, Bureau of Human Resources, Department of Health and Social Services, Madison, Wisconsin; (9) Saul Hoffman, associate professor of economics, University of Delaware, Newark; and (10) H. Dale Keeton, president, The Family Institute, Ltd., The Vienna Family Therapy Center, Vienna, Virginia. Witnesses summarize factors affecting the well being of children in families experiencing divorce, including continuity of parenting; household reorganization; parental conflict or communications; shifting parental role models; multiple relocations; marked changes, usually losses, in financial resources; and unsteady educational or social opportunities for the children. Prepared statements, letters, and supplemental materials are included. (NB)
Descriptors: Childhood Needs, Children, Divorce, Family Financial Resources, Family Problems, Hearings, Interpersonal Relationship, Parents, Well Being
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Publication Type: Legal/Legislative/Regulatory Materials
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Audience: Policymakers
Language: English
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Authoring Institution: Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Select Committee on Children, Youth, and Families.
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