Women's childhood experience of parental separation and their subsequent health and socioeconomic status in adulthood
- 1 January 1990
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Journal of Biosocial Science
- Vol. 22 (1) , 121-135
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0021932000018435
Abstract
Summary: The long term consequences for women of parental divorce and separation in childhood are explored using data from a national, prospective, longitudinal survey. In comparison with women who suffered no parental loss, parental divorce is associated with lower educational attainment and occupational status, poorer mental health, higher alcohol consumption and higher rates of remarriage. Links with earlier signs of emotional disturbance and current levels of stress are explored.Keywords
This publication has 15 references indexed in Scilit:
- THE INTERESTS OF CHILDREN AFTER PARENTAL DIVORCE: A LONG-TERM PERSPECTIVE1International Journal of Law, Policy and The Family, 1988
- Childhood Loss in Alcoholics and Narcotic AddictsBritish Journal of Addiction, 1988
- Teenage sexual intercourse and pregnancy.Archives of Disease in Childhood, 1988
- Follow‐up of the first national birth cohort: Findings from the Medical Research Council National Survey of Health and DevelopmentPaediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology, 1987
- Loss of parent in childhood and adult psychiatric disorder: the role of lack of adequate parental carePsychological Medicine, 1986
- The reliability and validity of PSE assessments by lay interviewers: a national population surveyPsychological Medicine, 1986
- Teenage Marriage and Marital Breakdown: A Longitudinal StudyPopulation Studies, 1986
- The Age at which Childbearing Starts--A Longitudinal StudyPopulation Studies, 1983
- Reliability of the PSE (ninth edition) used in a population studyPsychological Medicine, 1977
- The Intergenerational Transmission of Marital Instability: Comparisons by Race and SexJournal of Social Issues, 1976