Recycling the Family: Remarriage after Divorce

In Recycling the Family the authors examine the social, psychological and economic aspects of the divorce-remarriage transition. They demonstrate how and why the process of remarriage is fundamentally different from that of a first marriage, and identify the factors that redefine family life, including: keeping a distance from one′s former spouse; inheriting stepchildren; the convolution of traditional blood and legal relationships; and built-in expectations of marital instability.