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Frequency of contact with nonresident fathers and adolescent well-being: A longitudinal analysis

16 de abril de 2021

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…

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Separación o divorcio: Trastornos psicológicos en los padres y los hijos

16 de abril de 2021

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…

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Children’s living arrangements following separation and divorce: Insights from empirical and clinical research

16 de abril de 2021

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…

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Postdivorce living arrangements, parent conflict, and long-term physical health correlates for children of divorce

16 de abril de 2021

The authors tested a biopsychosocial model in which young adults’ long-term relationships with fathers and ongoing distress surrounding their parents’ divorces mediated the relationship between disrupted parenting (i.e., exposure to parent conflict before the divorce and up to 5 years after, and amount of time with father postdivorce) and indicators of their physical hea..

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Family ties after divorce: Long-term implications for children

16 de abril de 2021

Drawing on the data from the longitudinal Binuclear Family Study, 173 grown children were interviewed 20 years after their parents’ divorce. This article addresses two basic questions: (1) What impact does the relationship between parents have on their children 20 years after the divorce? and (2) When a parent remarries or cohabits, how does it…

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Trastorno de ansiedad por separación en hijos de padres divorciados

16 de abril de 2021

La ansiedad de los niños al separarse de los padres es uno de los problemas psicológicos más frecuentes en la población infantil. En los hijos de padres divorciados la vulnerabilidad a presentar el trastorno es mayor debido a la separación brusca de uno de los padres después de la ruptura, que el niño puede vivir…

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The relationship between contact and child adjustment in high conflict cases after divorce or separation

16 de abril de 2021

The study explored the relationship between contact and child adjustment where parents are in legal dispute over contact following divorce. The sample consisted of 156, 129 and 108 parents at three different time points. Resident and contact parents reported on child and parent wellbeing, contact, decision-making and concerns about their former partner´s parenting. Child…

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Joint physical custody in The Netherlands and the well-being of children

16 de abril de 2021

The frequency of contact with fathers and mothers and the amount of parental support for boys and girls is an important issue after divorce, from emotional, legal, and empirical points of view. In the Netherlands between 1998 and 2008, joint physical custody after divorce (when children actually have shared residences) has increased from 5% to…

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Parental divorce and children´s adjustment

16 de abril de 2021

This article reviews the research literature on links between parental divorce and children’s short-term and long-term adjustment. First, I consider evidence regarding how divorce relates to children’s externalizing behaviors, internalizing problems, academic achievement, and social relationships. Second,I examine timing of the divorce, demographic characteristics, child…

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Psychosocial adjustment and physical health in children of divorce

16 de abril de 2021

To review the literature on the effects of parental divorce over the psychological maladjustment and physical health problems in children of divorced parents, thus contributing to the integration of existing scientific knowledge based on the biopsychosocial model of the impact of divorce on children’s physical health as proposed by Troxel and Matthews (2004). Review of…

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