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The Adjustment of Children with Divorced Parents: A Risk and Resiliency Perspective

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 1999

E. Mavis Hetherington  and
Margaret Stanley-Hagan
E. Mavis Hetherington
Affiliation:
University of Virginia, Charlottesville, U.S.A.
Margaret Stanley-Hagan
Affiliation:
University of North Carolina at Charlotte, U.S.A.
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Abstract

This review addresses major questions about divorce, around which much contemporary research is oriented. These involve questions of the consequences of divorce for the adjustment of children and the vulnerability and resiliency of children in coping with divorce, whether children are better off in a conflictual intact family situation or a divorced family, and how mothers, fathers, and clinical or educational interventions can moderate the effects of divorce. Although research in the past decade has yielded considerable information about these questions, issues that need further investigation are also presented.

Keywords

Divorcevulnerability and resiliencyquestions about divorce
Type
Research Article
Information
The Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry and Allied Disciplines , Volume 40 , Issue 1 , January 1999 , pp. 129 - 140
Copyright
© 1999 Association for Child Psychology and Psychiatry

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