Not exact matches
For instance, in Life Without Father, David Popenoe offers stunning evidence
of negative outcomes for the growing number
of children whose fathers are absent, whether because
of divorce or because their parents did not marry.
According to Willard Harley, bestselling author
of His Needs, Her Needs: Building An Affair - Proof Marriage, the sexual promiscuity
of the 60s and 70s brought a high rate
of divorce, sexually transmitted diseases and a host
of other
negative outcomes.
While father absence has been associated with a host
of negative children's
outcomes, including increased risk
of dropping out
of school and lower educational attainment, poorer physical and mental health, and behavioural problems,36 - 40 higher levels
of involvement by nonresident fathers may assuage the
negative effects
of father absence on children's
outcomes.41, 42 Quality
of the parents» relationship before
divorce, or
of the pre-
divorce father / child relationship, can also be an important factor: children fare worse following
divorce when pre-
divorce relationships were good and fare better when pre-
divorce relationships were poor, 43,44 suggesting children are sometimes better off without a father if the father's relationship to the child or the mother was not good.
The studies that link
negative child
outcomes to
divorce that have found
negative results when children stay in conflicted homes has tied child health and well - being to these specific kinds
of indicators.
Russell Clayton, a doctoral student in the University
of Missouri School
of Journalism, found that individuals who use Facebook excessively are far more likely to experience Facebook - related conflict with their romantic partners, which then may cause
negative relationship
outcomes including emotional and physical cheating, breakup and
divorce.
The collaborative
divorce process can, in particular, have profound positive effects for the children involved; conflict is reduced early on, and parents are proactively learning co-parenting skills and ways to reduce conflict when / if it eventually arises and are also receiving psychoeducation about the potential
negative effects
of divorce on children's
outcomes.
: The Relationship Between Marital Processes and Marital
Outcomes,» John Gottman found that «the single biggest determinant [as to whether or not wedded couples will
divorce] is the ratio
of positive to
negative comments the partners make to one another....
A large, multi-year study
of 3,492 children demonstrated that blending families was not associated with
negative behavioral
outcomes for the kids — in fact, it buffered the
negative impact
of divorce events that occurred earlier.
Stanley suggests that
divorce raises the risk
of «various
negative outcomes for children by a factor
of two or three.
This finding is in direct contrast to the more
negative psychological
outcomes associated with single - mother families following parental separation or
divorce, and highlights the diversity among female - headed families and the importance
of not treating them as the same.
One
of the reasons for
negative child - rearing
outcomes in
divorced homes in which there is something other than sole authority in the custodial parent, e.g. the variety
of joint custody «solutions,» is precisely that at every turn, the authority
of the head
of the children's household IS in fact undermined.
Using children to express parental hostilities and disputes is most strongly associated with poor /
negative outcomes for children and adolescents
of divorce (Buchanan et al. 1991).
While father absence has been associated with a host
of negative children's
outcomes, including increased risk
of dropping out
of school and lower educational attainment, poorer physical and mental health, and behavioural problems,36 - 40 higher levels
of involvement by nonresident fathers may assuage the
negative effects
of father absence on children's
outcomes.41, 42 Quality
of the parents» relationship before
divorce, or
of the pre-
divorce father / child relationship, can also be an important factor: children fare worse following
divorce when pre-
divorce relationships were good and fare better when pre-
divorce relationships were poor, 43,44 suggesting children are sometimes better off without a father if the father's relationship to the child or the mother was not good.