INTACTNESS OF THE HOME AND BEHAVIOURAL PROBLEMS IN CHILDREN
- 7 December 1966
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry
- Vol. 7 (3-4) , 225-233
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-7610.1966.tb02248.x
Abstract
Referral problems for children in out-patient psychiatric clinics were compared for intact homes and for broken homes in which parents were widowed, divorced, separated, unmarried or "other". All varieties of broken homes were over-represented in the clinic population compared to the general population; intact homes were under-represented. Type of home was significantly differentiated by 4 referral problems anxiety and neurotic symptoms, aggression, anti-social behavior, and problems of habit formation. The evidence suggests that the broken home should not be treated as a unitary concept.This publication has 18 references indexed in Scilit:
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