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…

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..

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…