A prospective study of behavioral disturbance in children who subsequently experience parental divorce: a research note

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Children from disrupted homes show excessive disturbance compared to those from normal ones. A group of 450 children, aged 7 years, were interviewed from 1979-1982, and on the basis of the information gathered 139 families were chosen for the final study conducted during 1984-1986 on the same children, now aged between 9 and 12. Between the two interview phases the children whose homes had disintegrated were markedly disturbed unlike those whose homes remained intact.

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Inner-city, poor children of divorce: negative divorce-related events, problematic beliefs and adjustment problems

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The fear of abandonment is positively related to child or parent reports of adjustment problems, and maternal blame beliefs were mildly related to child-adjustment reported by parents. These findings were made after a study that investigated the effects of negative divorce occurrences. Four kinds of divorce theories about the problems of coping with divorce faced by 35 inner city deprived children were used.

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Favorable outcomes in children after parental divorce

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A psychological study of the short and long-term effects of divorce on children revealed that they initially struggled to cope with the sudden change in their domestic life. These children, however, emerged stronger and faced challenges in a better way. They proved to be more mature and more emphatic in establishing their individuality when compared with their peers.

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