Courtship for Remarriage: Influences on Family Reorganization after Divorce

Courtship for remarriage has not been a major topic for either empirical research or theorizing. This article presents a theoretical approach to the specific issue of the impact of courtship for remarriage on postmaritalfamily reorganization, based upon existing theory and research. Several propositions for empirical testing derived from the theoretical argument are presented and discussed in relation to each of five subsystems within the reorganizing postmarital family system.