Pennsylvania State University sociologist Paul Amato has had a vital impact on my own research. I spent the first decade of my career studying the divorce cycle, the tendency for divorce to run in families. This work culminated in my 2005 book, Understanding the Divorce Cycle: The Children of Divorce in Their Own Marriages. When I began my research, Paul was already an established expert on the consequences of growing up with divorced parents. He started writing about the intergenerational tr...
