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Fault Lines

Fractured Families and How to Mend Them
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Fault Lines explores the hidden epidemic of family estrangement, a problem affecting millions with deep, lasting pain. Combining 300 in-depth interviews with 1,800 individuals, large-scale survey data, and expert insights from family therapists, Dr Karl Pillemer offers a comprehensive, practical guide to understanding why families break and how some find paths to repair or peaceful acceptance.
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This book is invaluable for adults of all ages facing family estrangement, those seeking practical advice on strained relationships, and readers interested in the complexities of family dynamics and well-being.

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The first book to address the issue of family estrangement, based on intensive research, in-depth interviews and survey data, by internationally recognised family sociologist Dr Karl Pillemer.

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What problem touches millions of people and causes distress so profound that it can last a lifetime? What if no reliable professional guidance exists for this problem, so most people who suffer from it are on their own in finding solutions?

This critically important issue - and hidden epidemic - is family estrangement. Few problems are so widespread and so damaging, sometimes for decades and across generations, and yet there has not been a definitive, popular and data-informed book about how families are broken and stay broken - until now.

Fault Lines is a fascinating, moving and above all practical treatment of this complex issue, aimed at adults of all ages. Based on 300 in-depth interviews with 1,800 individuals, this book captures the eloquence of ordinary people facing family challenges that threaten their identity, health and well-being, relying on sources never before available, including a unique combination of rich, in-depth interviews, data from large-scale surveys and conversations with leading family therapists.

This is the first book to reveal successful strategies from people who have found ways to repair rifts or live peacefully with the consequences when nothing can be done - and the first to offer hope to broken families which need it the most.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781529349993

Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 04 February 2021

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Yellow Kite

Audience: General / adult, Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 24.0mm

Width: 152.0mm

Height: 232.0mm

Weight: 358g

Pages: 288

About the Author

Karl Pillemer, Ph.D., is an internationally recognised family sociologist. He is Hazel Reed Professor of Human Development at Cornell University. Dr Pillemer specialises in studying family and is a pioneer in examining how families contain and cope with powerful, conflicting emotions.

He has authored more than 150 scientific publications and is a Fellow of the Gerontological Society of America.

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