Children of divorce: Preliminary report of a ten-year follow-up of young children.
- 1 July 1984
- journal article
- Published by American Psychological Association (APA) in Australian and New Zealand Journal of Surgery
- Vol. 54 (3) , 444-458
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1939-0025.1984.tb01510.x
Abstract
Early findings from a ten-year follow-up of youngsters, now in their teens, whose parents had divorced when they were between two-and-one-half and six years old, suggest that those who were youngest at the time of the marital breakup fared better in the ensuing years than their older siblings, who experienced more difficulty in dealing with troubled memories of family strife. Issues of adjustment in this group of youngsters are examined, based on semistructured clinical interviews with 30 children and 40 parents.Keywords
Funding Information
- San Francisco Foundation
- Marion E. Kenworthy-Sarah H. Swift Foundation
- Zellerbach Family Fund
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