Problematic peer relations are associated with both concurrent and
future maladjustment of children, and hence warrant serious attention from parents and professionals working with children.
A prospective study spanning both the early child - rearing years and the years with adolescent offspring may increase our understanding of how to best preserve relationships among parents, thereby also identifying risk factors needing to be controlled for in
future studies of the association between parental dissolution and child
maladjustment.