The effects of parental divorce: experiences of the child in later latency

Am J Orthopsychiatry. 1976 Apr;46(2):256-69. doi: 10.1111/j.1939-0025.1976.tb00926.x.

Abstract

This paper discusses the impact of divorce on 31 children in later latency, as observed shortly after the initial parental separation and one year later. The material is part of an on-going clinical study, begun in 1970, of 131 children and adolescents from 60 divorcing families in Northern California.

MeSH terms

  • Achievement
  • Adaptation, Psychological
  • Anger
  • Anxiety / etiology
  • Child
  • Denial, Psychological
  • Divorce*
  • Empathy
  • Female
  • Follow-Up Studies
  • Grief
  • Humans
  • Identity Crisis
  • Latency Period, Psychological*
  • Loneliness
  • Male
  • Parent-Child Relations
  • Parents*
  • Play and Playthings
  • Psychosexual Development*
  • Shame
  • Time Factors