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Divorce and Its Psychiatric Sequelae in Children
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The purposes of this report are to examine statistically the characteristics of a group of children of divorce, using both normal and disturbed children.Abstract:
THERE has been a relative neglect of the study of divorce as a specific mental health issue in children's lives. This neglect is highlighted because of its obvious import for personality development and disturbance of that development on an individual basis, as well as from a sheer public health view of the incidence in our society, ie, over 6 million children of divorce are growing up in our midst today, with the steadily climbing divorce rate pouring forth more and more. Full study of the impact of divorce will require a variety of approaches, using both normal and disturbed children, focusing both on the immediate and later impact, and including particularly needed longitudinal studies. The host of influential variables involved will inevitably require a variety of different types of probes. The purposes of this report are to (1) examine statistically the characteristics of a group of childrenread more
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The Long‐Term Effects of Parental Divorce in Childhood on Adult Adjustment
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Children of divorce
TL;DR: Trends for the period 1950-84 in the number and proportion of children whose parents divorced and characteristics of divorcing couples with and without children are examined.
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Parental divorce in early childhood
TL;DR: Preventive efforts channeled through the school at this time may ease the immediate shock for the child and help him to resume the normal tasks of maturation more quickly.
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The one-parent child and his oedipal development.
TL;DR: The one-parent child and his Oedipal development was studied in this article, where a psychoanalytic study of the child's development was carried out in the early 1960s.