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The Relative Risk of Divorce in Parents of Children With Developmental Disabilities:Impacts of Lifelong Parenting

Year: 2015

Type: article

Abstract: We prospectively examined the risk of divorce in 190 parents of children with developmental disabilities compared to 7,251 parents of children without disabilities based on a random sample drawn from the community and followed longitudinally for over 50 years. A significant interaction between the parental group status and number of children was found: In the comparison group, having a larger number of children was related to an increased risk of divorce, whereas the number of children did not increase divorce risk among parents of children with developmental disabilities.

Source: American Journal on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities

DOI: 10.1352/1944-7558-120.6.514

Authors: Eun Ha Namkung, Jieun Song, Jan S. Greenberg, Marsha R. Mailick, Frank J. Floyd

Institutions: University of Wisconsin–Madison, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa

Language: English

Topic: Family and Disability Support Research

Subfield: Clinical Psychology

Field: Psychology

Domain: Social Sciences

SDG: Good health and well-being

Open Access status: green

Funders: National Institutes of Health, National Institute on Aging, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development