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Autism Vox

Archive for the ‘Divorce’ Category

September 30th, 2007

How high is the divorce rate among autism parents?

The notion that divorce is “ever-increasing” is a “great myth” and also “plain wrong,” Betsey Stevenson and Justin Wolfers, assistant professors of business and public policy at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, write in an op-ed in the September 29th New York Times. Responding to the release last week of new statistics […]

By Kristina Chew, PhD -- 31 comments

August 12th, 2007

Divorce a “common side effect” of autism?

Kurt Thometz is a rare book dealer in New York and the father of 16-year-old Adam, who has autism. Thometz is profiled in the August 11th New York Times (subscription only) about his search for a home for his family of three and for his 400 cartons containing some 10,000 books. Jim Dwyer relates Thometz’s […]

By Kristina Chew, PhD -- 52 comments