Children of Divorce: New Trends and Ongoing Dilemmas

The Wiley-Blackwell Handbook of Family Psychology

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 463-474

  Pruett, Marsha Kline ^a   Barker, Ryan ^a  

^a SMITH COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Age differences in adjustment; Children of divorce new trends and ongoing dilemmas; Divorce stressful transition in family life; Gender differences in adjustment; Impact of divorce on young children; Middle childhood stress in academic and social and emotional domains; Non residential parent child contact and relationship; Parental cooperation and conflict

Indexed keywords

EID: 84860816945     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444310238.ch31     Document Type: Chapter

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