Carranza, L.V. and Kilmann, P.R. (2000) Links between Perceived Parent Characteristics and Attachment Variables for Women
from Intact Families.
The difference in psychological well - being between respondents
from intact and dissolved families no longer remains when we control for these conditions.
First, those normally at lower risk (e.g., children
from intact families) are generally living in more protective environments.
The participants comprised 80 adolescents from single parent families and 98 adolescents
from intact families.
Although many children of divorce move on in the visible world as competently as do
those from intact families, their psyches are nonethless measurably changed by divorce's long reach.
Respondents from dissolved childhood families exhibit a lower psychological well - being and shorter education as adults than their peers
from intact families.
Severe dissension in the childhood family is not associated with low education as an adult and can, thus, not explain why respondents from dissolved families are less likely to attain a long education than respondents
from intact childhood families.
In fact, in these households, the child rearing outcomes are comparable to
those from intact homes.
In fact, daughters of divorce are more than twice as likely to divorce themselves when compared to their counterparts
from intact families.
If parents can manage their relationship in a cordial and business - like manner, children do as well as
those from intact families.
The subjects were 43 latency - age children: 11 from maternal custody families, 14 from joint custody families and 18 controls
from intact homes.
You conclude that Popenoe's argument indicating better child rearing outcomes
from intact homes means that «The converse of this is that divorce and single - motherhood do a poor job in raising kids and he proves it in his book.»
[1] Children who witness their parents» high - conflict divorces suffer from preventable mental and emotional health problems at significantly higher rates than children
from intact families or even divorced families where the parents exhibit low or no conflict.
Furthermore, research indicates that father involvement declines after divorce (Agar, Cioe, & Gorzalka, 2010; Amato, 1994; Harris, Furstenberg, & Marmer, 1998; Schwartz & Finley, 2005; van Schaick & Stolberg, 2001), and that young adults from divorced families report a greater desire for father involvement than young adults
from intact families (Finley & Schwartz, 2007).
In their book Growing Up with a Single Parent: What Hurts, What Helps, sociologists Sara McLanahan and Gary Sandefur found that 31 % of adolescents with divorced parents dropped out of high school, compared to 13 % of children
from intact families.
Children from dissolved families generally have more internalizing and externalizing problems, lower academic achievements and poorer social adjustment, compared with children
from intact families (Frisco et al. [2007]; Størksen et al. [2006]; Sun and Li [2002]-RRB-, and the negative association between parental divorce and adjustment persist into adulthood (Amato and Sobolewski [2001]; Størksen et al. [2007]-RRB-.
Similarly, the National Child Development Study in the UK, which has followed up a large general population sample of children born in 1958, found that children from single - parent families were at greater risk for psychological problems than a matched group of children
from intact families not only in childhood (Ferri, 1976) but also in early adulthood (Chase - Lansdale et al., 1995) and middle age (Elliot and Vaitilingam, 2008).
They also appeared to have healthier narcissism than did adolescents from single - parent families without Big Brothers, but were more anxious when relating to male teachers than were adolescents
from intact families.
A University of Toronto study has found that the offspring of divorced parents are more likely to smoke than children
from intact families.
Twenty - nine adolescents matched with Big Brothers were compared with two control groups (adolescents from single parent families without Big Brothers and
those from intact families) on relevant variables.
Compared with similar children
from intact families, children raised in single - parent homes are more likely to become involved in crime, to have emotional and behavioral problems, to fail in school, to abuse drugs, and to end up on welfare as adults.
The study also found that males whose parents had divorced were 25 per cent more likely to continue smoking than males
from intact families.
The overnighting babies had exactly the same mean score on irritability as babies
from intact families.
For example, the likelihood of children
from intact homes having behavior problems is 10 percent while it is roughly 30 percent for children from divorced homes.
Marriages of the children of divorce actually have a much higher rate of divorce than the marriages of children
from intact families.
Teenagers in single - parent families and in blended families are 300 % more likely to need psychological help within any given year than teens
from intact, nuclear families.
Among adult children
from intact families, 80 % marry, and 9 % of them divorce (in other words, 73 % of children of intact families are happily married).
Overall, according to Wallerstein (2004), adolescents from divorced homes acted out more than adolescents
from intact homes.
It was hypothesized that divorce would moderate the heritability of DE, in that heritability would be higher in twins from divorced than twins
from intact families.
To investigate these disturbances, researchers compared second and third graders
from intact families, to those from divorced families.
In particular, differences in well - being between children from divorced and
those from intact families, tend, on average, to be moderate to small.»
While she did find that 25 % of children from divorce do have serious social, emotional, or psychological problems (in contrast to only 10 % of children
from intact families), the great majority (75 % to 80 %) of children of divorce shows very little long - term damage and, as adults, is functioning well.
Research has shown that children of divorce often experience difficulties in school, and exhibit more health, behavioral, and emotional problems than children
from intact homes.
Links between perceived parent characteristics and attachment variables for young women
from intact families
«A longitudinal study of 584 children
from intact families indicated that children whose fathers are highly involved with them attain higher levels of education and economic self - sufficiency than children whose fathers are not highly involved.
Fluff — Children
from intact homes with more successful fathers tend to be more successful as adults than children
from intact homes with less successful fathers.
Compared to their peers
from intact homes, they have fewer rights, privileges and opportunities for social relationships and activities which could enrich their lives.
Federal statistics show they're more likely to go to prison, abuse illegal drugs and alcohol, do worse in school and be less likely to be employed as adults than kids
from intact families.
It is one of the phenomena that contribute to those statistics of divorced children not doing as well in high school and early adulthood as children
from intact homes.
Fluff — Children
from intact homes with responsible fathers tend to be more successful as adults than children
from intact homes with irresponsible fathers.
There are many examples of these: court - mandated father - child only activities, dinners out, and therapies; parent - teacher conferences and school events also attended by the ex; pick - ups and drop - offs that can take considerable time away
from the intact family, derail spontaneity in outings, and may also include impromptu visiting with the former spouse; continuing communications with the former spouse; activities during timesharing with the older stepchild that are not suitable for including later children or the stepmother; timesharing and school holiday schedules that conflict with the stepmother's children's time off or interfere with holiday plans, etc..
«To have a greater impact on reducing the overall number of suicide attempts that occur yearly in the United States, prevention and treatment efforts need to target groups that have been accurately identified as a risk... professionals should recognize that children who experience parental divorce might be more vulnerable for suicide attempt than
those from intact households,» the study states.
She does not dismiss the 25 per cent of children from divorced families who have serious emotional or social problems (compared with 10 per cent
from intact families).
There were no significant differences in mean adjustment scores between girls
from intact and divorced families at any time.
Here's what they found: In 1973, adult children of divorce were 172 % more likely to get divorced than adult children
from intact homes.
A child of a divorced family is two times more likely to drop out of high school than a child
from an intact family.
The grown children of divorced parents died almost five years earlier, on average, than children
from intact families.
Children of divorce suffer psychologically and frequently have lower academic achievement than children
from intact families.
In the case of this attachment - related pathology of a child rejecting a parent surrounding divorce, the family is unable to successfully transition
from an intact family structure to a separated family structure because of the aberrant and pathological processing of sadness by the narcissistic / (borderline) personality parent, who is then triangulating the child into the spousal conflict through the formation of a cross-generational coalition with the child to stabilize the collapsing personality structure of the narcissistic / (borderline) parent, which is collapsing in response to the rejection and abandonment inherent to the divorce.
Parents» relationships — Children of divorce had a 17 % divorce rate, versus 10 % divorce rate for
those from intact families.