While parental
divorce during childhood has been statistically linked to an increased risk for various physical ailments, from asthma to cancer, these studies have tended to rely on self - reports.
For example, adults who experience parental divorce as a child have lower socioeconomic attainment, an increased risk of having a nonmarital birth, weaker bonds with parents, lower psychological well - being, poorer marital quality, and an elevated risk of seeing their own marriage end in divorce.7 Overall, the evidence is consistent that parental
divorce during childhood is linked with a wide range of problems in adulthood.
People who experience parental
divorce during childhood have higher levels of an inflammatory marker in the blood which is known to predict future health, according to new research from UCL.
Adults who experienced
divorce during childhood may also have more relationship difficulties.
Not exact matches
This
divorce suggests that the accumulation of risks
during childhood limits wellbeing opportunities in the following stages of the life cycle.
Born Charles Marvin Zekowski in New York City in 1926, Charles Seliger had a turbulent
childhood during which he moved frequently due to the precarious finances of his
divorced parents.
I vividly remember struggling to understand what
divorce meant and what a
childhood friend was going through
during his parents»
divorce.
A new 2013 study, published in Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, reports that insecure parental relationships were most pronounced when the
divorce occurred
during early
childhood.
This 2013 study by Fraley and Heffernan isolated and tested the sensitive period hypothesis which posited that, if true, the impact of parental
divorce on adult attachment styles should be more pronounced if it occurred
during early
childhood than if it took place later in
childhood.
Legal disputes involving children particularly
divorces impact these children not only
during childhood but for their adult lives as well.
These issues may include having an alcoholic, mentally ill or absent parent; experiencing physical, sexual or verbal abuse; or death,
divorce or separation occurring
during your
childhood.
The correlation with main occupation
during childhood is probably high, though, but some studies indicate that men's and women's positions in the labor market change in conjunction with
divorce and separation (see e.g., Evertsson 2001).
When she starts to process the importance of this, she might realize that she hurt
during her own
childhood because of her parent's
divorce.