Word: furstenburg
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...work has its critics. Some challenge her results directly. University of Pennsylvania professor Frank Furstenburg Jr. claims that "the overall effect of divorce is modest to moderate." Others, noting Wallerstein's lack of a control group, wonder whether her subjects are any more miserable than the kids from troubled but continuing marriages she didn't track. A lengthy University of Virginia study recently found that children of divorce were better off than those of highly dysfunctional marriages, and family historian Stephanie Coontz is worried that Wallerstein's "scare tactics" may cause mismatched mates to "stick it out for the kids...