Parental Divorce, Marital Conflict, and Offspring Well-being during Early Adulthood*
作者:
Paul R. Amato,
Laura Spencer Loomis,
Alan Booth,
期刊:
Social Forces
(OUP Available online 1995)
卷期:
Volume 73,
issue 3
页码: 895-915
ISSN:0037-7732
年代: 1995
DOI:10.1093/sf/73.3.895
出版商: The University of North Carolina Press
数据来源: OUP
摘要:
Cross-sectional studies show that adults who grew up in conflict-ridden two-parent families or who experienced parental divorce report lower levels of psychological and marital well-being than do other adults. However, previous research has been unable to determine how parental marital conflict, divorce, and children's long-term outcomes are related. Using a 12-year longitudinal study, we find that the consequences of parental divorce depend on parental marital conflict prior to divorce. In high-conflict families, children have higher levels of well-being as young adults if their parents divorced than if they stayed together. But in low-conflict families, children have higher levels of well-being if their parents stayed together than if they divorced. In marriages that do not end in divorce, parental marital conflict is negatively associated with the well-being of offspring.
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