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Research on Divorce: Continuing Trends and New Developments
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Research on divorce during the past decade has focused on a range of topics, including the predictors of divorce, associations between divorce and the well‐being of children and former spouses, and interventions for divorcing couples. Methodological advances during the past decade include a greater reliance on nationally representative longitudinal samples, genetically informed designs, and statistical models that control for time‐invariant sources of unobserved heterogeneity. Emerging perspectives, such as a focus on the number of family transitions rather than on divorce as a single event, are promising. Nevertheless, gaps remain in the research literature, and the review concludes with suggestions for new studies.
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“in comparison with children of intact first marriages, children of divorce suffer in virtually every measure of a child's well-being, whether educationally, economically, physically, psychologically, or emotionally”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Amato, P. R.
- Affiliations
- Pennsylvania State University (US)
- Corresponding author
- Amato, Paul R.
- Venue
- Journal of Marriage and Family
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2010-06
- Volume
- 72
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 650-666
- ISSN
- 0022-2445 (ISSN-L)
- 1741-3737
- OpenAlex
- W2052518709
- Cited by
- 1,918
- References
- 124
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 214.48
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Journal of Marriage and the Family (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Demography › Family Dynamics and Relationships
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Marriage and Family Dynamics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Attachment and Relationship Dynamics
- Keywords
- divorce, children of divorce, family transitions, genetically informed designs, unobserved heterogeneity, longitudinal study
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