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| The legacy of parental divorce: social, economic and demographic experiences in adulthood | | Author(s) | Kathleen Kiernan |
| Corporate Author | ESRC Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion - CASE, Suntory-Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines - STICERD, London School of Economics and Political Science |
| Publisher | STICERD, London, October 1997 |
| Pages | 42 pp (CASEpaper 1) |
| Source | STICERD, London School of Economics, Houghton Street, London WC2A 2AE. |
| Keywords | Children [offspring] ; Adults ; Centre for Policy on Ageing ; Divorce ; Economic status [elderly] ; Social surveys. |
| Annotation | This study - supported by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) - examines the effects into adulthood on children of divorcing parents. The long-term consequences for educational attainment, economic situation, partnership formation and dissolution, and parenthood behaviour in adulthood, for those who experience parental divorce in childhood were generally more negative. Children who grow up with both biological parents may end up better off educationally and economically, largely because they were advantaged to begin with, not necessarily because the parents stayed together. For those whose parents remain together until their children are grown up before separating, they were as likely to have unstable partnerships or marriages. In general, the connection between parental divorce and behaviour in adulthood is unclear: it depends on the behaviour, the gender of the child, and to some extent when parental separation occurs in a child's life. |
| Accession Number | CPA-980127237 B |
| Classmark | SS: SD: PR: SOH: F:W: 3F |
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