Divided Families
What Happens to Children When Parents Part
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Release Date: 01/04/1994
What Happens to Children When Parents Part. This text argues that despite the upset children experience after parental separation, most adapt successfully provided the mother is secure both financially and psychologically, and conflict between parents is low. The usual casualty of divorce is a declining relationship between father and child. In spite of the upset children experience after parental separation, Furstenberg and Cherlin find that most children adapt successfully as long as their mother does reasonably well financially and psychologically, and as long as conflict between parents is low. The casualty of divorce is usually the declining relationship between fathers and their children.