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Which Spouse Initiates Marital Separation when There Are Children Involved?
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Hewitt, Belinda – Journal of Marriage and Family, 2009
This report examines whether the presence of children in marriage differentially influences the risk of wives or husbands initiating separation. The analytic sample consists of 9,118 first marriages from the Households, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia survey (2001). Using event history and competing risks analysis, I find weak evidence…
Descriptors: Divorce, Spouses, Marital Satisfaction, Marriage
A Genetically Informed Study of the Intergenerational Transmission of Marital Instability
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D'Onofrio, Brian M.; Turkheimer, Eric; Emery, Robert E.; Harden, K. Paige; Slutske, Wendy S.; Heath, Andrew C.; Madden, Pamela A. F.; Martin, Nicholas G. – Journal of Marriage and Family, 2007
Environmental or genetic influences, or both could account for the increased risk of divorce among the offspring of separated parents. Previous studies have used covariates to statistically control for confounds, but the present research is the first genetically informed study of the topic. The investigation used the Children of Twins Design with…
Descriptors: Marital Instability, Genetics, Divorce, Twins
Marital Conflict, the Parent-Child Relationship and Child Self-Esteem.
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Amato, Paul R. – Family Relations, 1986
Investigated the association between levels of marital conflict and the self-esteem of children and adolescents. Results indicated the negative effects of conflict tended to be strongest when children's relationships were poor with both parents. However, for young females, conflict was also negatively related to self-esteem when relationships with…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Age Differences, Children, Elementary Education
Marital Discord and Treatment Outcome in Behavioral Treatment of Child Conduct Disorders.
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Dadds, Mark R.; And Others – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 1987
Assessed the role of marital discord in the outcome of a program training parents in behavioral techniques (behavioral parent training), and the effects of an adjunctive treatment of partner support training (PST) on outcome. Families with an oppositional or conduct disordered child underwent child management training alone or with PST. Measured…
Descriptors: Behavior Disorders, Behavior Modification, Children, Family Environment
A Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Adjustment Following Family Transitions
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Ruschena, Eda; Prior, Margot; Sanson, Ann; Smart, Diana – Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 2005
Background: This study examined the impact of family transitions, that is, parental separation, divorce, remarriage and death, upon the lives of Australian children and adolescents in a longitudinal study of temperament and development. Methods: Using longitudinal and concurrent questionnaire data, outcomes for young people experiencing…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Personality, Adolescents, Emotional Adjustment
Children's Participation in Divorce. Discussion Paper Number 10.
Edgar, Don; Harrison, Margaret – 1982
Counselors should begin to think not only of the needs of children involved in the process of their parents' divorce, but of an approach to marriage counseling as a whole. Children participate in the context of divorce as family members in the social interaction that makes a family work or not work; there are, therefore, various stages or points…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Child Advocacy, Child Role, Child Welfare