EFFECTS OF DIVORCE ON CHILDREN

离婚对孩子的影响

• 批准号: 2403197
• 负责人: Andrew J Cherlin
• 金额: $ 25.8万
• 依托单位: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 1989
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1989-08-01 至 1998-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/2403197
• 关键词: British; academic achievement; adolescence (12-20); behavioral /social science research tag; child (0-11); child behavior; child rearing; divorce /separation; family structure /dynamics; human data; longitudinal human study; mathematical model; mental health; parent offspring interaction; quality of life; sex behavior; socioeconomics; young adult human (21-34)

This is a competing continuation application to study the effects of parental marital disruption (the first occurrence of separation or divorce) on the short- and long-term well-being of children. The proposed analyses, building on the current project, will focus on divorce not as an event but rather as a process that begins before the parents separate and continues afterward. The great rise in divorce in the 1960s and 1970s means that now, in the early 1990s, the first birth cohorts to experience this high risk of parental divorce are entering adulthood. They will greatly expand the proportion of adults in their 20's and 30' who have experienced a parental divorce. But relatively little is known about the effect of parental divorce during childhood on adult functioning and well-being; and what is known is drawn largely from retrospective reports. One part of this project will be to analyze the 1958 through 1991 waves of the prospective, longitudinal National Child Development Study (NCDS) of Great Britain, which has followed a single birth cohort from age 0 to 33. Key questions will include the following: Do the effects of experiencing a parental divorce-on mental health; on demographic outcomes such as childbearing, union formation, and divorce; and on economic outcomes--persist into mid-life? Does whether or not the parent remarries make a difference? Do late divorces (in the child's late teens or 20's) affect adult children? And do all of these effects still hold once characteristics of the child and his or her family prior to the divorce are taken into account? In addition, assessments were conducted on a random sub-sample of the children of the 33-year-old NCDS panel members in 1991. It is proposed to analyze the effects of parental divorce on this new generation, using the detailed information on their parents from birth to age 33. The key question is: How much of the effect of divorce on children can be accounted for by the history of their parents' psychological functioning since the parents' own childhood? Finally, the effects of divorce on younger children will be pursued, using the 1986-1992 waves of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY). The current project found modest, generally non-significant effects of divorce 2 to 2 1/2 years, on average, after the disruption among children aged 7-16 at the time of the breakup; but it found stronger effects for a heavily-preschool-aged sample 1 year after the breakup. This discrepancy leads to 2 questions that will be explored with the assessments of children in the 1986, 1988, 1990, and 1992 NLSY: Does the disruption itself and its aftermath cause more problems for young (preschool-aged) children than for older children? And/or does the disruption itself and its aftermath produce transitory behavior problems in children of all ages which fade within about two years in most cases? The proposed analyses will begin with simple regression models and hazard models. We then will estimate models that, to the extent possible, take into account sample-selection bias and self-selection into the divorced and non-divorced groups.

这是一个竞争性的延续应用程序，用于研究 父母婚姻破裂（第一次发生分居或 离婚）对孩子的短期和长期福祉的影响。 这 拟议的分析以当前项目为基础，将侧重于 离婚不是一个事件，而是一个在离婚之前就开始的过程。 父母分开并随后继续。 离婚率大幅上升 在 1960 年代和 1970 年代意味着现在，在 1990 年代初，第一个 经历这种父母离婚高风险的出生群体是 进入成年期。 他们将大大扩大成年人的比例 20多岁和30多岁，经历过父母离婚的人。 但 人们对父母离婚的影响知之甚少 童年对成人功能和福祉的影响；已知的是 主要来自回顾性报告。 该项目的一部分是分析 1958 年至 1991 年的波浪 前瞻性纵向国家儿童发展研究 英国的（NCDS），它追踪了来自英国的单一出生队列 年龄 0 至 33 岁。关键问题包括以下内容： 效果如何 经历父母离婚对心理健康的影响；关于人口统计 结果，例如生育、婚姻形成和离婚；等等 经济成果——持续到中年？ 是否 父母再婚有影响吗？ 晚离婚（在孩子的 十几岁或二十几岁）会影响成年子女吗？ 并实现所有这些效果 仍然保留孩子及其家庭曾经的特征 考虑离婚前的情况吗？ 此外，还对随机子样本进行了评估 1991 年 33 岁的 NCDS 小组成员的子女。建议 分析父母离婚对新一代的影响， 使用父母从出生到 33 岁的详细信息。 关键问题是：离婚对孩子的影响有多大？ 可以通过父母的心理历史来解释 是从父母的童年开始就发挥作用吗？ 最后，我们将探讨离婚对年幼子女的影响， 使用 1986-1992 年全国青年纵向调查的数据 （NLSY）。 目前的项目规模不大，通常不重要 离婚后平均 2 至 2 1/2 年的影响 分手时 7 至 16 岁的儿童；但它发现 一年后，对学龄前儿童样本的影响更大 拆散。 这种差异引出了两个需要探讨的问题 1986年、1988年、1990年和1992年对儿童的评估 NLSY：中断本身及其后果是否会导致更多问题 对于年幼（学龄前）的儿童而言，还是对于年龄较大的儿童？ 和/或 中断本身及其后果是否会产生短暂的影响 所有年龄段儿童的行为问题在大约两岁内就会消失 大多数情况下是几年？ 所提出的分析将从简单的回归模型开始， 危险模型。 然后我们将估计模型，在一定程度上 可能的话，考虑样本选择偏差和自我选择 分为离婚组和非离婚组。