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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Amato, Paul R.
• Loomis, Laura Spencer
• Booth, Alan

Titel

Parental Divorce, Marital Conflict, and Offspring Well-being during Early Adulthood

Ist Teil von

• Social forces, 1995-03, Vol.73 (3), p.895-915

Ort / Verlag

Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press

Erscheinungsjahr

1995

Quelle

Applied Social Sciences Index & Abstracts (ASSIA)

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Cross-sectional studies show that adults who grew up in conflict-ridden two-parent families or who experienced parental divorce report lower levels of psychological and marital well-being than do other adults. However, previous research has been unable to determine how parental marital conflict, divorce, and children's long-term outcomes are related. Using a 12-year longitudinal study, we find that the consequences of parental divorce depend on parental marital conflict prior to divorce. In high-conflict families, children have higher levels of well-being as young adults if their parents divorced than if they stayed together. But in low-conflict families, children have higher levels of well-being if their parents stayed together than if they divorced. In marriages that do not end in divorce, parental marital conflict is negatively associated with the well-being of offspring.