REMARRIAGE: A FAMILY DEVELOPMENTAL PROCESS

Abstract

As family members move from first marriage, through divorce and the two household family, to early and then established remarriage, they face predictable periods of transition in which family structure is disrupted and reorganized. Clinical examples are used to illustrate the view that an understanding of the pain of transition and the effectiveness of reorganization must be placed in the context of(l) the challenges characteristic of the current phase in the divorce‐remarriage cycle, (2) the life cycle issues of individual family members, and (3) the legacy of previous family structural organizations.