This book is comprised of articles written by some of the leading researchers studying single parent families, divorce and remarriage. Authors were asked to write chapters that were interesting and accessible not only to other researchers, but also to nonresearch professionals working with children such as psychiatrists, paediatricians, social workers, clinical psychologists, family therapists and educators. The papers included in this volume are for the most part based on programmatic research and studies based both on large scale surveys and on smaller studies involving multiple methods and multiple measures that include observations, standardized tests and questionnaires, and interviews and multiple informants. The authors take a risk and resiliency approach in examining family functioning and child adjustment in different kinds of families. The interactions among individual, familial and extrafamilial risk and protective factors are explored in an attempt to explain the great diversity in parents' and childrens' responses to different kinds of experiences associated with marriage, divorce, life in a single parent household and remarriage.