Attitudes toward love, sexuality, and marriage among young adult children of divorce

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1991-08

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Longitudinal studies (Hetherington, Cox & Cox, 1985; Wallerstein, 1985, 1987) have established that the effects of parental divorce in childhood and adolescence are longstanding. Older research had indicated that males were more adversely affected in the long run; however, this research has been shown to be influenced by the outcome measures used. That is, when outcome measures tap into the more relational aspects of functioning after divorce, females show pervasive, long-term effects (Zaslow, 1989). The main weaknesses in this research tradition are (a) a lack of comparisons of males and females on statistically sound relational measures and (b) a lack of comparisons between adult children of intact and divorced families. The purpose of the present study was to investigate attitudes related to the relationship issues and behaviors which have been reported by other researchers as significant for adults from divorced families. These attitudes encompass love, sexuality, and marriage.

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Young Adult Children of Divorce, Attitudes toward Love, Attitudes toward Marriage

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