Judith Wallerstein was a psychologist and researcher who created a 25-year study on the effects of divorce on the children involved.
19 Facts About Judith Wallerstein
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Judith Wallerstein received a number of prominent awards and honors and wrote four best selling books.
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Judith Wallerstein was born on December 27,1921, as Judith Hannah Saretsky in New York City.
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Judith Wallerstein's father died from cancer when she was 8 years old.
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Judith Wallerstein died at 90 years old June 18,2012 from an unexpected intestinal obstruction in Piedmont, California.
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Judith Wallerstein was married for 65 years to the academic Robert S Wallerstein.
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Judith Wallerstein taught as the senior lecturer from 1966 to 1991 at the University of California, Berkeley.
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Judith Wallerstein held faculty positions at the University of California, The Hebrew University, and Pahlavi University Medical School.
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Judith Wallerstein was a consultant for the Advisory Commission on Family Law to the California Senate Subcommittee on Administrative Justice, The Commission on Law and Mental Health, State Bar of California, and the California Senate Task Force on Family Equity.
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Judith Wallerstein's three best-selling books about children and divorce were: Second Chances, The Unexpected Legacy of Divorce, and What About the Kids.
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Judith Wallerstein received many awards including: the Distinguished Teaching Award from the University of California, The Koshland Award in Social Welfare from the San Francisco Foundation, Commendation from the State of California Senate Rules Subcommittee, the Rene Spitz Lectureship from the Denver Psychoanalytic society, election to Who's Who in American Science, the Dale Richmond Award of the American Academy of Pediatrics, etc.
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Judith Wallerstein's career was centered around a 25-year-long longitudinal study, the "California Children of Divorce Study," investigating the effects that divorce has on families.
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Judith Wallerstein began her study in 1971 with Joan B Kelly.
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Judith Wallerstein followed 131 children between the ages of 3 and 18 from 60 divorced families in Marin County, California, for 25 years, with intensive interviews conducted every 5 years.
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Judith Wallerstein discovered that the effects of divorce are more long lasting than most assume.
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Judith Wallerstein found that the quality of post-divorce life is crucial for the children.
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Some criticized her for the families she studied that were all middle class and the parents were all well-educated, Judith Wallerstein was criticized for not having a wider variety.
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Judith Wallerstein influenced a California court on child relocation, and was criticized by Richard A Gardner.
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Feminists felt that Judith Wallerstein was trying to encourage women to stay in bad marriage and discouraging divorce.