Marital Status, Divorce, and Child Development

Colleen M. Carr; Sharlene Wolchik

doi:10.1016/B978-0-08-097086-8.23222-4

Marital Status, Divorce, and Child Development

Colleen M. Carr, Sharlene Wolchik

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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)
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
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-08-097086-8.23222-4
State	Published - Mar 26 2015

Keywords

Externalizing
Internalizing
Interparental conflict
Parenting
Post-divorce adjustment
Preventive interventions
Protective factors
Risk factors
Substance use

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General Social Sciences

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