This paper examines differences in life satisfaction among children in different family structures in 36 western, industrialised countries (n = 184 496). Children living with both biological parents reported higher levels of life satisfaction than children living with a single parent or parent–step-parent. Children in joint physical custody reported significantly higher …

The importance of genetic and environmental influences on children’s behavioral and emotional problems may vary as a function of environmental exposure. We previously reported that 12-year-olds with divorced parents showed more internalizing and externalizing problems than children with married parents, and that externalizing problems in girls precede and predict later

El objetivo de este trabajo es analizar la influencia de diversos aspectos del ajuste al divorcio de los progenitores en los problemas de conducta que puedan mostrar sus hijos e hijas. Los datos del presente estudio corresponden a 575 personas, 223 progenitores y 352 hijos e hijas, de familias separadas o divorciadas. Se utilizaron diversas…

Estudios previos indican que el divorcio de los padres puede aumentar la vulnerabilidad de los hijos a desarrollar determinados problemas personales, como bajo rendimiento académico. El presente estudio examina el rendimiento académico de los adolescentes españoles con padres divorciados y su relación con el autoconcepto y la ansiedad social. La muestra está formada por …

This study investigated the relationship between parental separation and aggressive and internalizing behavior in a large sample of Swiss children drawn from the ongoing Zurich Project on the Social Development of Children and Youths. Parents retrospectively reported life events and problem behavior for the first 7 years of the child’s life on a quarterly basis…

The development and adjustment correlates of parent-child social (parent, child, and others present) and dyadic time (only parent and child present) from age 8 to 18 were examined. Mothers, fathers, and firstborns and secondborns from 188 White families participated in both home and nightly phone interviews. Social time declined across adolescence, but dyadic time with…

The increase in shared physical custody in Sweden has been dramatic; 20 years ago only a small percentage of adolescents lived in shared physical custody, but currently ~30% of the adolescents whose parents have separated or divorced divide their residence between parents. We hypothesized that living in shared physical custody or in a single-parent family…

During the past 50–60 years, marital divorce has become more common and today 50% of marriages in Norway end in divorce. An increasing number of children are exposed to single parenting, blended families and unstable family situations. According to Statistics Norway 9 950, children under the age of 18 experienced divorce in 2008. In reality…

In the past 50 years, research on divorce has grown exponentially. A search of the database PsychInfo from 1962 to the present using the search term “divorc*” returned a total of 14,955 citations. A graph of this growth by decade is depicted in Figure?1, indicating an average of 514 citations per year over the last…

A large number of studies have shown that parental divorce is associated with psychological maladjustment in children. Less is known about whether the magnitude of this association has changed over time. This is mainly because of the lack of repeated data, containing identical measures over time. In the present article, the authors use data from…