Since the early 1970's, research has been done on the negative effects of divorce on children’s well-being and the intergenerational transmission of divorce risks in the USA. Especially the public opinion in the United States has been one of enormous concern for the effects on children, since divorce rates have developed strongly, and are still significantly higher than in any other country in ...

The frequency of advice about life plans that older adolescents in always-married and divorced families received from mothers, fathers, and siblings was examined. Also, a pattern-analytic approach that grouped adolescents according to the amount of advice about life plans received from each parent and a sibling was employed to explore the connections between patterns of advice and adolescents’ ...

OBJECTIVE We investigated gene-environment interactions (GxE) for associations between parental divorce and disordered eating (DE). METHOD Participants were 1,810 female twins from the Michigan State University Twin Registry and the Minnesota Twin Family Study. The Minnesota Eating Behaviors Survey was used to assess DE. We tested for GxE by comparing the heritability of DE in twins from divo...

This study tested separation and attachment theory in relation to the career choice commitment of college students, including those from divorced families, and the impact of family status on separation, attachment, and career variables. Partial or limited support was found for separation and attachment theory. For example, conflictual independence, attachment, and financial press related modera...

PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to determine if marital status, including specific types of single status categories, is associated with length of survival in lung cancer patients. METHODS Data from the 1996-2007 Florida Cancer Data System were linked with Agency for Health Care Administration data and U.S. Census data. Patients with both small cell and non-small cell lung cancer were i...

purpose: the aim of the present study was to determine theeffectiveness of group hope therapy on the time horizon andoptimism of divorced women 25-40 years old in tehran whoreferred to a counseling center. materials and method: 30divorced women were selected randomly and were assignedat two experimental and control groups. group hope therapywas held for 8 sessions of 2 hour. group hope therapy ...

This paper examines compliance with child support orders by divorced fathers in Wisconsin. Compliance increases as the income of the father increases, although it falls in the highest income category. The "burden" of awards does not affect compliance unless more than 30 percent of income is owed. More stringent enforcement systems increase compliance. We find that most divorced fathers who are ...

the purpose of current survey is to determine the effectiveness of stress management training on the quality of life of divorced women who are under support of baharestan township welfare organization. the used method for this survey was quasi-experimental by designing pre test-post test with evidence group. statistical population of the study includes 587 divorced. the top thirty women in qual...

Article history: Received date: 28 July, 2016 Review date: 7 August, 2016 Accepted date:25 August 2016 Printed online: 1 September Purpose: The aim of the present study was to determine the effectiveness of group hope therapy on the time horizon and Optimism of divorced women aged between 25 to 40 years old in Tehran who referred to counseling centers. Materials and method: 30 ...