PSYC 260 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Single Parent, Heredity, Multiple Choice
Document Summary
Divorce causes upheaval in children and in parents and first couple years after is stressful. Sex differences experiences: defiant behaviour is greater in boys than girls, but boys just express the anger physically, while girls are likely to take on parenting characteristic to younger siblings and be more nurturing to parent. Long term longitudinal studies of affect of divorce. In both followed divorce and not and financially well off and matched sexes. Hetherington (15 years: followed for 15 years, focus on positive outcomes. Wallerstein (25 years: look way into adolescence and young adulthood, focuses on negative outcomes for children. Keep the number of changes for the children as few as possible. Children have regular contact with both parents. Children should not use children as go-between for parents. Parents should not talk negatively about ex-spouse to children: child often feels allegiance to both parents so hard to be caught in the middle.
