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-.
Not exact matches
By hosting these vulnerable
children, along
with support
from the church, this extended
family environment helps keep
children safe and keeps
families intact.
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.
«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.»
Parental disagreements cause stress and suffering in a
child;
children often emerge in good shape
from low - conflict break - ups, and they do better than those in an
intact family with high conflict.
Despite the painfully bad educational outcomes in many public schools in ghettos across the country, there are also cases where charter schools in the very same ghettos turn out students whose test scores are not only far higher than those in other ghetto schools, but sometimes are comparable to the test scores in schools in upscale suburban communities, where
children come
from intact families with highly educated parents.
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.
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.
If this was a traditional two parent
family that could not live together due to divorce, would one parent be expected to tolerate such abuse
from the other parent in order to keep that parent's relationship
with the
children intact?
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..
Children in single - parent families were significantly more likely to experience a burn / scald (with or without medical attention), 2 or more accidents, a long - term disability, or scar from an accident, compared with children in intact or nonstepf
Children in single - parent
families were significantly more likely to experience a burn / scald (
with or without medical attention), 2 or more accidents, a long - term disability, or scar
from an accident, compared
with children in intact or nonstepf
children in
intact or nonstepfamilies.
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 Dep
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 Dep
children 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
We measure the quality and quantity of fathers» involvement
with adolescent
children in intact families over time using longitudinal data from The National Survey of C
children in
intact families over time using longitudinal data
from The National Survey of
ChildrenChildren.