TY - JOUR
AU1 - Hetherington, E. Mavis
AB -  Ai\ONOGRAPHS remarriage have been viewed as nonnormative transitions involving changing adaptive challenges to family members and alterations in family functioning over time. The diverse sequences of family reorganizations and experiences following divorce and remarriage and the patterning and timing of these experiences are critical for the long-term adjustment of adults and children. Furthermore, responses to a current marital or family situation will be influenced by the experiences that have preceded it. The response to divorce will be influenced by the predivorce family relationship and adjustment, and roles and relationships in the one-parent household vt'ill shape the family's subsequent response to the addition of a stepparent. One of the main challenges confronting members of families in transition lies in defining and developing appropriate, acceptable, and fulfilling roles within different family relationships. This may be a particularly difficult task for nontraditional families, in which clearly prescribed normative roles are often lacking (Gherlin, 1981; Hetherington, Stanley Hagan, & Anderson, 1989). Both divorce and remarriage involve a complex series of changes that can affect all aspects of family relationships. Adaptation in one family subsystem can influence adaptation in another either positively or negatively (Hetherington, 1988; MacKinnon, 1989). Thus, the marital, sibling, and 
TI - I. COPING WITH MARITAL TRANSITIONS: A FAMILY SYSTEMS PERSPECTIVE
JF - Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development
DO - 10.1111/j.1540-5834.1992.tb00300.x
DA - 1992-02-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/wiley/i-coping-with-marital-transitions-a-family-systems-perspective-L0JhEGLbW0
SP - 1
VL - 57
IS - 2‐3
DP - DeepDyve
ER -