CHILD DISABLEMENT, FAMILY DISSOLUTION AND RECONSTITUTION
- 12 November 2008
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology
- Vol. 28 (5) , 610-616
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-8749.1986.tb03903.x
Abstract
The results of a study of nationally representative sample of disabled children and controls are presented. The findings suggest that although, at any one time, families containing a disabled child are not no more likely to be one-parent families, disabled children do appear to be more likely to experience a spell in a one-parent family at some time in their lives. Where these spells occur, they are of longer duration than for the general population, which suggests that family reconstitution may be more difficult where a disabled child is present.This publication has 8 references indexed in Scilit:
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