Divorce : risk factors, patterns and impact on children's well-being / Shannon Grant, editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Grant, Shannon, editor.

Series:

Family issues in the 21st century series.

Family Issues in the 21st Century

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Divorce.

Children of divorced parents--Psychology.

Children of divorced parents.

Families.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (180 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : Nova Publishers Inc., 2016.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book provides current research on the risk factors, patterns and impact on children's well-being of marital divorce. The purpose of the first chapter is to examine the relationships between divorce, the single-mother family, the single-father family, and youth crime using a social disorganization framework and community-level data from 454 Canadian municipalities in 2001 and 2006. Chapter two provides a review of the disruptions in close relationships in children and adolescents with divorced parents. Chapter three reviews the more scant literature on naturally occurring coping efforts among children of divorce, including the importance of social support, help-seeking behaviours, and the continuum of active to more passive coping strategies originating from the cognitive-behavioural perspective. Chapter four compares perceptions of coparenting in divorced and married parents, both fathers and mothers, and assessing their relations to school-age and adolescent children's psychosocial adjustment. Chapter five studies stepfamily transitions and common accompanying beliefs, and reports the findings of an empirical study which aimed to predict two aspects of remarital quality - dyadic adjustment and relationship commitment - via a measure of the changes in one's beliefs over time about remarriage and stepfamilies. Chapter six illuminates how specific children seek to connect and balance out the everyday life by being attentive to repeated routines as well as differences between their two households. The final chapter studies children's experiences of sibling relationships after parental separation.

Contents:

DIVORCE: RISK FACTORS, PATTERNS AND IMPACTON CHILDREN'S WELL-BEING; DIVORCE: RISK FACTORS, PATTERNS AND IMPACTON CHILDREN'S WELL-BEING; Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data; CONTENTS; PREFACE; Chapter 1: DIVORCE, FEMALE AND MALE SINGLE PARENTS AND YOUTH CRIME: A SOCIAL DISORGANIZATION FRAMEWORK; ABSTRACT; INTRODUCTION; THEORETICAL EXPLANATIONS AND REVIEW OF RESEARCH; METHODS; RESULTS; DISCUSSION; REFERENCES; Chapter 2: DISRUPTIONS IN CLOSE RELATIONSHIPS IN CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS WITH DIVORCED PARENTS: A REVIEW OF THE LITERATURE AND IMPLICATIONS FOR RESEARCH AND PRACTICE

ABSTRACTINTRODUCTION; ATTACHMENT THEORY: ORIGINS AND CURRENT PERSPECTIVES; CONCEPTUALIZING DIVORCE AND FAMILY TRANSITIONS: AN ATTACHMENT FRAMEWORK; A CLOSER LOOK AT CHILDREN'S DEVELOPING ATTACHMENT PATTERNS; MOTHER-CHILD ATTACHMENT FORMATION AND MAINTENANCE IN THE CONTEXT OF PARENTAL DIVORCE; FATHER-CHILD ATTACHMENT FORMATION AND MAINTENANCE IN THE CONTEXT OF PARENTAL DIVORCE; ADOLESCENCE: REWORKING ATTACHMENT MODELS AND THEIR HIERARCHY; PARENTAL DIVORCE AND THE FORMATION OF ROMANTIC RELATIONSHIPS

AN ADDITIONAL EXPLANATION FOR ROMANTIC RELATIONSHIPS' REPRESENTATIONS IN ADOLESCENCE: OBSERVATIONS OF THE COPARENTAL RELATIONSHIPCONCLUSION; REFERENCES; Chapter 3: CHILD-REGULATED MECHANISMS FOR COPING WITH PARENTAL DIVORCE: A REVIEW OF THE LITERATURE AND A MIXED-METHODS EMPIRICAL STUDY; ABSTRACT; INTRODUCTION; A MIXED-METHODS EMPIRICAL STUDY OF CHILD-REGULATED COPING; METHODS; RESULTS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS OF ACTIVITIES QUESTIONNAIRE; DISCUSSION; CONCLUSION; REFERENCES; Chapter 4: COPARENTING IN DIVORCED AND MARRIED PARENTS AND CHILDREN'S PSYCHOSOCIAL ADJUSTMENT; ABSTRACT; INTRODUCTION

METHODRESULTS; CONCLUSION; REFERENCES; Chapter 5: "THIS TIME I KNOW IT'S FOR REAL": BELIEFS AND EXPECTATIONS AS PREDICTORS OF REMARITAL AND CO-PARENTING QUALITY; ABSTRACT; INTRODUCTION; METHOD; RESULTS AND DISCUSSION; CONCLUSION; APPENDIX: CO-PARENTING BELIEF INVENTORY(CBI; PRINGLE & EHRENBERG); REFERENCES; Chapter 6: CHILDREN'S PERSPECTIVES ON POST-DIVORCE FAMILY LIFE: CONTINUITY AND CHANGE; ABSTRACT; INTRODUCTION; WHAT IS A REAL FAMILY?; WITH CONDUCT OF EVERYDAY LIFE AS A THEORETICALLY INFORMING BENCHMARK; THE STUDY; CHILDREN'S TIME-SHARED FAMILY LIVES; CONCLUSION; REFERENCES

Chapter 7: CHILDREN'S EXPERIENCES OF SIBLING RELATIONSHIPS AFTER PARENTAL SEPARATION: A CASE STUDY APPROACHABSTRACT; INTRODUCTION; METHOD; RESULTS AND DISCUSSION; CONCLUSION; REFERENCES; INDEX

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-63484-322-3