Parental Conflict and Marital Disruption: Do Children Benefit When High-Conflict Marriages Are Dissolved?

1999 ◽  
Vol 61 (3) ◽  
pp. 626 ◽  
Author(s):  
Donna Ruane Morrison ◽  
Mary Jo Coiro
Keyword(s):  
Marital Disruption ◽  
Parental Conflict ◽  
High Conflict

scholarly journals Parental Divorce and Sibling Relationships

2008 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 74-91 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne-Rigt Poortman ◽  
Marieke Voorpostel
Keyword(s):  
Relationship Quality ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Sibling Relationships ◽  
Parental Divorce ◽  
Sibling Relationship ◽  
Parental Conflict ◽  
Long Term Effects ◽  
High Conflict ◽  
The Relationship

This study examines long-term effects of parental divorce on sibling relationships in adulthood and the role of predivorce parental conflict. It used large-scale retrospective data from the Netherlands that contain reports from both siblings of the sibling dyad. Results show limited effects of parental divorce on sibling contact and relationship quality in adulthood but strong effects on sibling conflict. The greater conflict among siblings from divorced families is explained by the greater parental conflict in these families. Parental conflict is a far more important predictor than parental divorce per se. Siblings from high-conflict families have less contact, lower relationship quality, and more conflict than do siblings from low-conflict families. Finally, when it comes to sibling relationship quality, the effect of parental divorce depends on the amount of parental conflict. Parental divorce has little effect on the quality of the relationship in low-conflict families, but it improves the relationship in high-conflict families.

scholarly journals Marital Disruption, Remarriage and Child Well-being in China

2020 ◽  
Vol 41 (7) ◽  
pp. 978-1009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yang Hu
Keyword(s):  
Well Being ◽  
Marital Disruption ◽  
Structural Instability ◽  
Parental Conflict ◽  
Social Selection ◽  
Panel Survey ◽  
Intact Families ◽  
Institutional Settings ◽  
Extent Of Damage ◽  
Analyze Data

Family changes in China are characterized by a dual rise in marital disruption and remarriage. However, the implications of these changes for child well-being remain understudied. I analyze data from the 2015 China Education Panel Survey to profile and explain well-being disparities between children in intact, disrupted, and remarried families. Child well-being is poorer in disrupted than in intact families. Remarriage, particularly of both parents, is associated with further harm to children’s well-being. Mothers’ remarriage is associated with a broader range and greater extent of damage to children’s well-being than that of fathers. Neither social selection nor economic and non-pecuniary resources explain poorer child well-being in disrupted families and stepfamilies than in intact families. Household structure only explains why children in disrupted families, but not in stepfamilies, fare less well than those in intact families. Variations in child well-being with parents’ marital status are consistently explained by poor parent–child relations and parental conflict. Reflecting on the theories of selectivity, resource deprivation, and structural instability, the findings highlight the need to consider China’s distinctive sociocultural and institutional settings in configuring the implications of ongoing family changes for child well-being.

Adolescents' Response to Parental Conflict Predicts Aggression

1998 ◽  
Author(s):  
B. T. Davis ◽  
H. Hops ◽  
A. Alpert ◽  
L Sheeber
Keyword(s):  
Parental Conflict

Adult-Attachment Mediating Perceptions of Parental Conflict and Adjustment

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Angela M. Cusimano ◽  
Shelley A. Riggs ◽  
Sara E. Pollard ◽  
Laura Cawley ◽  
Lindsey Flory
Keyword(s):  
Adult Attachment ◽  
Parental Conflict
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