Children's Risks of Experiencing Divorce and Remarriage
Do Disabled Children Destabilize Marriages
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4913285 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jane Mauldon (a Graduate School of Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley, California, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1992 |
| Volume | 46 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 349-362 |
| Publication date | 1992-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Population Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0032-4728 • E-ISSN: 1477-4747 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/0032472031000146276 |
| OpenAlex | W1980690627 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 32 |
In this paper, U.S. data from the 1981 Child Health Supplement are used to estimate the effect of a child's disability or serious chronic illness on: (1) the risk of the parents' divorcing before the child reaches the age of 11, and (2) the mother's chances of remarriage after divorce. Divorce is significantly more common among the parents of disabled or sickly children than among those of healthy children, and these disruptive effects of a child's frailty are even stronger when children are between six and nine years old than when they are younger. Possibly, divorce only becomes a viable option for some parents once a sickly child has started to spend part of the day away from home, in school. In contrast, a child's health status does not predict the mother's waiting time to remarriage. A range of potentially confounding demographic factors are controlled in the models, and their effects on children's chances of experiencing parental divorce are as expected. For example, having a mother who married young significantly predicts parental divorce
Confounding · Developmental psychology · Remarriage · Sociology · Demography · Global Health Care Issues · Health disparities and outcomes · Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving · Medicine · Psychology
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| Unique citing works | 32 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 1994 - 2022 (29) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 27 |