Sentences with phrase «of children from intact families»

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.

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).

Marriages of the children of divorce actually have a much higher rate of divorce than the marriages of children from intact families.

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.

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.

Not exact matches

«There is an accumulating body of knowledge based on many studies that shows only minor differences between children of divorce and those from intact families, and that the great majority of children with divorced parents reach adulthood to lead reasonably fulfilling lives.»

Research from E. Mavis Hetherington and John Kelly in For Better or Worse: Divorce Reconsidered suggests that nearly 80 % of all children of divorced parents end up as happy and as well adjusted as children from intact families, so if the divorce and subsequent co-parenting go well, the kids may well be fine.

Spouses who are both children of divorced parents are three times more likely to divorce as couples who both hail from intact families.

The child - rearing practices of both intact families and families suffering from separation and divorce often overlook this fact.

Others have found that children of divorced parents are up to six times more likely to be delinquent than are children from intact families.

BUILD Illinois played a key role in developing a process for implementing an early intervention screening and referral system for intact families with children from birth to age three with substantiated cases of abuse in neglect.

Parents» relationships — Children of divorce had a 17 % divorce rate, versus 10 % divorce rate for those 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.

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The grown children of divorced parents died almost five years earlier, on average, than children from intact families.

A child of a divorced family is two times more likely to drop out of high school than a child from an intact family.

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 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..

With a 5 - year discretionary grant in 2007 from the Children's Bureau, IDCFS took the IAP — which was designed for children entering foster care — and extended it to intact families in need of services from the DepChildren's Bureau, IDCFS took the IAP — which was designed for children entering foster care — and extended it to intact families in need of services from the Depchildren entering foster care — and extended it to intact families in need of services from the Department.

«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.

[T] he various patterns of coresidence did not differ from the children in intact families on the outcome measures, suggesting that during the initial adjustment period after marital dissolution, the absence of a father - figure or the presence of biological - father - substitutes appear to have no influence on most children's intellectual or psychosocial functioning.»

Children of intact families benefit from both parents» incomes.

Determined to uncover the truth, Elizabeth Marquardt herself a child of divorce conducted, with Professor Norval Glenn, a pioneering national study of children of divorce, surveying 1,500 young adults from both divorced and intact families between 2001 and 2003.

The overall results of these studies suggest that while children from divorced families may, on average, experience more major psychological and behavioral problems than children in intact families, there are more similarities than differences.

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).

A University of Toronto study has found that the offspring of divorced parents are more likely to smoke than children from intact families.

Cold, rejecting, or abusive alienating parents of either gender — in intact or divorced families — alienating the children from the targeted parent.

This report also indicates that children in cohabiting households are more likely to suffer from a range of emotional and social problems — drug use, depression, and dropping out of high school — compared to children in intact, married 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.

Decades of vast research, from a number of countries, has shown that children with divorced and separated parents fare less well than children in intact families, both in the short and in the long run and on a number of dimensions, e.g., social, behavioral, emotional, and psychological well - being, physical health, and educational attainment.

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