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Reconsidering the Effects of Marital Disruption

What Happens to Children of Divorce in Early Adulthood?

University of Pennsylvania

JULIEN O. TEITLER

University of Pennsylvania

This article identifies predivorce individual and family characteristics that explain a portion of the effect of parental separation on the long-term well-being of children. Using longitudinal data from the National Survey of Children (NSC), the authors discuss how much of the relationship between a separation and measures of adult well-being (including educational and economic attainment, patterns of family formation, delinquency, and psychological well-being) is due to selectivity of parents into more fragile marriages and to family conflict that often precedes the physical departure of a parent from the household. The results of the study indicate that divorce is associated with some outcomes, although much of its putative effect diminishes when predivorce factors are accounted for. The authors suggest that researchers give more careful consideration to the processes leading up to a separation as part of the divorce experience of children.

Journal of Family Issues, Vol. 15, No. 2, 173-190 (1994)
DOI: 10.1177/0192513X94015002002


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