A Judge’s Guide

DEVELOPMENTAL CONSIDERATIONS
1 JUDITH WALLERSTEIN & SANDRA BLAKESLEE, SECOND CHANCES: MEN,
WOMEN AND CHILDREN A DECADE AFTER DIVORCE (Ticknor and Fields
1989); Andrew J. Cherlin, et al., Longitudinal Studies of Effects of Divorce on Children
in Great Britain and the States, 252 SCIENCE 1386, 1386-89 (1998); Paul Amato,
Life-Span Adjustment of Children to Their Parents’ Divorce, 4 THE FUTURE OF
CHILDREN:CHILDREN AND DIVORCE 143, 150-51 (1994).
2 WILLIAM B. CAREY & SEAN C. MCDEVITT, COPING WITH CHILDREN’S
TEMPERAMENT:AGUIDE FOR PROFESSIONALS (Basic Books 1995).
3
JANET R. JOHNSTON ET AL., IMPASSES OF DIVORCE: THE DYNAMICS AND
RESOLUTION OF FAMILY CONFLICT (Free Press 1999) (children with more
difficult temperaments may not adapt as well to a visitation schedule with
frequent transitions between households).
4
See generally JOHN BOWLBY, ASECURE BASE: PARENT -CHILD ATTACHMENTS
AND HEALTHY HUMAN DEVELOPMENT (Brunner Mazel 1988).
5
See generally MARGARET MAHLER, THE PSYCHOLOGICAL BIRTH OF THE HUMAN
INFANT:SYMBIOSIS AND INDIVIDUATION (Basic Books 1989).
6
See, e.g., STANLEY S. CLAWAR &BRYNNE V. RIVLIN,CHILDREN HELD HOSTAGE:
DEALING WITH PROGRAMMED AND BRAINWASHED CHILDREN (American Bar
Association 1991).
7
RISA J. GARON, SNOWMAN: AKID’S GUIDE TO COMING TO TERMS WITH
SEPARATION AND DIVORCE (Children of Separation and Divorce Center, Inc.
2000).
8
See generally Allan L. Reiss et al., Brain Development, Gender, and IQ in Children: A
volumetric imaging study, 119 BRAIN 1763, 1763-74 (1996); Nitin Gogtay et al.,
Dynamic Mapping of Human Cortical Development during Childhood through Early
Adulthood, 101 PNAS 8174, 8174-79 (2004).
9 See generally MARGARET MAHLER,ON HUMAN SYMBIOSIS AND THE VICISSITUDES
OF INDIVIDUATION:INFANTILE PSYCHOSES (International Universities Press
1968).
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