Divorce and the child with cystic fibrosis: the therapeutic and legal implications

Article Abstract:

A case study of divorced parents with children affected by cystic fibrosis indicates that divorce has an adverse effect on the patients. However, it is unclear whether the disease is one of the major causes for divorces. Factors such as denial, lack of knowledge about the child's needs, treatment noncompliance and remarriages may aggravate the children's sickness. Health care professionals can play an important role in such cases through compassionate hearing of the problems of the patients and parents and helping the legal authorities to take necessary measures to protect the children's interest.

Health aspects, Cystic fibrosis, Children of divorced parents

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The psychological best interests of the child

Article Abstract:

The primary consideration in child placement legal disputes is the 'best interest of the child.' A popular mistake is understanding this criterion to have similar connotations from both the legal and psychiatric perspectives. The psychiatric concept of best interest emphasizes the emotional past, present, and future close ties of the child, while the legal point of view also includes financial and ethical implications. The psychiatric opinion of best interest is not crucial in discovering legal best interest.

Ethical aspects, Interest (Law), Interest (Psychology)

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Marital dissolution as a stressor: some evidence on psychological, physical, and behavioral changes in the pre-separation period

Article Abstract:

Marital dissolution, particularly during the pre-separation period, is a highly stressful event. The individual's well-being diminishes remarkably, while loneliness, distress and alcohol use increase. Weight loss is a physical manifestation of these changes. These were concluded in a study of more than 1,000 men and women separating during a two- to four-year period and the changes in their marital status during the process, especially as the time of formal separation approaches.

Separation (Law), Marital separation, Divorce, Life change events

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