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The present study updates the P. R. Amato and B. Keith (1991) meta-analysis of children and divorce with a new analysis of 67 studies published in the 1990s. Compared with children with continuously married parents, children with divorced parents continued to score significantly lower on measures of academic achievement, conduct, psychological adjustment, self-concept, a…

The author meta-analyzed studies comparing child adjustment in joint physical or joint legal custody with sole-custody settings, including comparisons with paternal custody and intact families where possible. Children in joint physical or legal custody were better adjusted than children in sole-custody settings, but no different from those in intact families. More positi…

Los hijos de padres separados o divorciados, como grupo, presentan más problemas de conducta y personales que los que viven en hogares intactos. Sin embargo, las estadísticas ocultan el hecho de que existe una gran variabilidad en la forma en que los niños y los adolescentes responden a la ruptura matrimonial de sus progenitores. La…

The practice of pediatrics is unique among medical specialties in many ways, among which is the nearly certain presence of a parent when health care services are provided for the patient. Regardless of whether parents or other family members are physically present, their influence is pervasive. Families are the most central and enduring influence in…

Los procesos de separación, como evento vital estresante, conlleva a un desajuste general en los miembros de la familia, especialmente en los hijos, al no poseer habilidades cognitivas y conductuales suficientes para afrontar la situación. En este trabajo se comparan los niveles de adaptación entre menores que viven en familias intactas y aquellos que han…

The empirical literature on the longer-term adjustment of children of divorce is reviewed from the perspective of (a) the stressors and elevated risks that divorce presents for children and (b) protective factors associated with better adjustment. The resiliency demonstrated by the majority of children is discussed, as are controversies regarding the adjustment of adult …

Do parental marital conflict and dissolution influence the risk trajectory of children’s physical health risk? This paper reviews evidence addressing this question in the context of understanding how early environmental adversities may trigger a succession of risks that lead to poor health in childhood and greater risk for chronic health problems in adulthood. We first…

This study examines the reciprocal relations between nonresident father visitation and the adjustment of adolescents and young adults. Youngsters’ adjustment and maladjustment is measured both by internalizing problems: stress and depressive feelings, suicidal thoughts and bad mental health, and by externalizing problems: delinquency, risk taking behavior and unemploymen…

Tras señalar el papel psicológico para los hijos del grupo familiar, se ha revisado la literatura científica sobre las consecuencias que acarrean en los niños las separaciones o divorcios, resaltando las ventajas e inconvenientes de la custodia compartida o en solitario, así como las características de los síndromes denominados de Alienación Parental, Progenitor Malicio…

When parents separate, children typically enter into new living arrangements with each parent in a pattern determined most often by one or both parents or, failing private agreement, as a result of recommendations and decisions by lawyers, therapists, custody evaluators, or family courts. Most of these decisions have been based on cultural traditions and beliefs…