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Download full textSong, Sunny Y. – 2002
Formal mental health services offered in traditional Western settings may be neither appropriate for nor accessible to Korean Americans who are adjusting to divorce. This paper presents an overview of current research on postdivorce adjustment and single parenting in the United States, examines various cultural differences (e.g., African, Asian,…
Descriptors: Counseling, Cultural Influences, Divorce, Emotional Adjustment
The Custodial Parent-Child Relationship as a Mediating Factor in the Effects of Divorce on Children.
Rasmussen, Janis Carol – 1987
Hess and Camara (1979) have shown that it is post-divorce family functioning, rather than family structure, that is most important in influencing the effects of divorce on children. A child's adjustment to divorce should be viewed as a developmental process rather than as a single event. Consequently, it is important to focus on the ways in which…
Descriptors: Child Custody, Child Development, Childhood Attitudes, Childhood Needs
Teeter, Gladys W. – 1991
Many children find themselves in changing families as a result of marital separation and divorce. Through bibliotherapy, they can identify with situations similar to their own, derive comfort in knowing that they are not alone, and develop insight and coping strategies. The purpose of this study was to examine how divorce, marital separation,…
Descriptors: Bibliotherapy, Childhood Attitudes, Childrens Literature, Content Analysis
Kohut, Nester C. – 1979
Family conservation is a new approach for strengthening nuclear families on a system level. The family communiversity is an agency developed to effect that approach. A discussion of family conservation on the systems level concerns the need for coping with those forces detrimental to families. The objective of family conservation is to maximize…
Descriptors: Community Programs, Coping, Delivery Systems, Divorce
Parker, Denise – 1978
This paper reviews current literature pertaining to the effects of divorce on children and makes suggestions regarding general ways in which parents and other adults may assist children in coping with divorce. The population of children towards which this study is directed includes preschool through latency age children. All inferences made in…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Child Development, Divorce, Emotional Adjustment
Gallo, Erminia Mina – 1997
A study examined how the family structure has changed over time in contemporary realistic children's literature for middle readers. There is an ongoing debate in this country about what defines a family and whether it is in transformation or becoming extinct. Since 1960 there is evidence that the family structure has changed. The books selected in…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Content Analysis, Divorce, Family Size
