Judith S Wallerstein

Judith Wallerstein is an expert on the effects of divorce on children and is the co-author of the new book “The Unexpected Legacy of Divorce” (Hyperion) which is based on a 25 year study following the lives of children whose parents had divorced. The book explores how the divorce of their parents decades ago continues to affect them into adulthood. She is also the founder of the Judith Wallerstein Center for the Family in Transition

Clinical Psychologist Judith S. Wallerstein. She is widely considered the world's foremost authority on the effects of divorce. Wallerstein is the co-author of Second Chances: Men, Women, and Children a Decade after Divorce. Her new book The Good Marriage: How and Why Love Lasts (Houghton Mifflin), which she co-wrote with Sandra Blakeslee, takes a look at marriages that work. Wallerstein is the founder and executive director of the Center for the Family in Transition. (Interview by Marty Moss-Coane)

Psychologist Judith Wallerstein completed a long-term study to learn the effects of divorce on families, especially on children. She says that kids often bear the responsibility of giving their parents emotional support, and that the impact on the children's own lives often won't manifest itself until years later.