SOCB49H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10b: Dysfunctional Family, Child Support, Size Small
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An overview of the risks and protectors for children of separation and divorce. Purpose of paper: examine factors related to divorce that protect or risk children, review usefulness of available measures to assess conflict in families experiencing divorce. Review empirical research; most children adjust successfully. Interparental conflict are strong predictors of risk factors for child maladjustment regardless of family type. Differences in children(cid:495)s difficulties following parent(cid:495)s divorce differ in their: does not account for all of the unexplained variations in child(cid:495)s, naturally occurring can be taught to parents. Designing policy to address # of risk factors adjustment effects in children: when several risk factors occur, they combine to multiply detrimental. Protective factors (warmth in parent-child relationship, positive emotionality. Warmth: knowing which children likely to show problems in divorce. Helps target services to those in need. Measurement of anger-based parental conflict well established.
