Abstract
A significant proportion of children and adolescents experience parental divorce, and much research has focused on the impact of divorce on children's adjustment outcomes. This article reviews data on the prevalence of divorce and changes in divorce rates over time, summarizes results of literature on children's postdivorce adjustment outcomes, discusses societal costs of parental divorce, outlines theories of the effects of parental divorce, and describes factors associated with children's responses to parental divorce. The article concludes with a discussion of interventions shown to prevent or reduce children's postdivorce adjustment problems.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Title of host publication | International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences: Second Edition |
| Publisher | Elsevier Inc. |
| Pages | 518-524 |
| Number of pages | 7 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9780080970875 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9780080970868 |
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| State | Published - Mar 26 2015 |
Keywords
- Externalizing
- Internalizing
- Interparental conflict
- Parenting
- Post-divorce adjustment
- Preventive interventions
- Protective factors
- Risk factors
- Substance use
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Social Sciences(all)