Sentences with phrase «divorce than younger children»

Adult children are no more prepared for parental divorce than younger children (Fintushel & Hillard, 1991).

Not exact matches

Some might question if the problem was the fact that it's a second marriage for both, which often has a more dismal divorce record than a first marriage but not always; some second marriages struggle because blending families with young children can be a challenge more than anything else.

The battle of wills in even a moderately difficult divorce, in which two adults struggle with the urges and needs of a younger psyche — as if the other person is more a parent than another vulnerable adult, when coupled with the fear attending almost every severing of this intimate bond, will often lock people into a miasma of pain and resentment, which simply can not be hidden from the children.

Whether you are old or young, have young children, or not, divorce is a profound change that requires resilience and coping skills that are different than what we use to get through the usual day - to - day stresses.

On the contrary, your adult children may be affected by your divorce even more than younger children would be.

Because mediation is a less contentious process than a courtroom divorce, couples without young children find their way into mediation as the process focuses on negotiation.

In a follow - up study 10 years after the divorce, however, the youngest children were adjusting to their new environments and interactions better than siblings who were older at the time of the divorce.

Attachment issues, fear of abandonment, and regression (where a child begins acting much younger than he or she is) can all crop up during divorce.

In view of our aims, respondents who were younger than 60 years of age (n = 5,574) and were never married, divorced, or separated (n = 96), or were without children (n = 73), were excluded from the analyses.

Cases described by this pattern of rejection can present immediately or two years after the divorce, in young children or in teens, in a child with a history of good relations with the father or without such a history, and in one or more than one child in the family.

Furthermore, many of my peers who married young also waited to have children until they married and are deeply religious, both of which greatly lower their chances of divorce, according to the 2012 State of Our Unions report (see the section «Your Chances of Divorce May Be Much Lower than You Think&rdivorce, according to the 2012 State of Our Unions report (see the section «Your Chances of Divorce May Be Much Lower than You Think&rDivorce May Be Much Lower than You Think»).

Younger children and boys, for example, often have an easier time adjusting to divorce than do girls or older children.

Some scholars argue that younger children should be more harmed by parental divorce than older children, partly because they live together with both parents for a shorter period, partly because they are less well equipped to understand the causes and consequences of their parents» divorce.