Jan S. Greenberg

TL;DR: Most individuals with autism do not attain normative outcomes in adulthood and continue to manifest significant degrees of symptomatology and dependency, however, a small sub-group has more favorable adult outcomes.

TL;DR: Compared to adolescents, older sample members (31 and older) had fewer maladaptive behaviors and experienced more improvement in these behaviors over time, and there were significant improvements in mean levels of symptoms.

TL;DR: Parents whose child had a serious mental health problem had normative patterns of educational and occupational attainment and marriage, but elevated levels of physical symptoms, depression, and alcohol symptoms at mid-life, compared with parents who had a child with a developmental disability.

TL;DR: Younger maternal age when the child with ASD was born and having the child born later in the birth order were positively predictive of divorce for parents of children with an ASD, which has implications for interventions focused on ameliorating ongoing and long-term marital strains.

TL;DR: Bereaved parents of deceased children and comparison parents with similar backgrounds identified in the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study reported more depressive symptoms, poorer well-being, and more health problems and were more likely to have experienced a depressive episode and marital disruption than were comparison parents.