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- Title
The Relation Between Family Structure and Young Adolescents' Appraisals of Family Climate and Parenting Behavior.
- Authors
Kurdek, Lawrence A.; Fine, Mark A.
- Abstract
The article explores the link between the number of parenting transitions and the family processes that affect child outcome. The article includes four family climate variables for the measure of the family system. They are--supervision, warmth, conflict, and order--known to be related to children's adjustment. Because the parenting transition groups of interest included two types of one parenting transition and two types of two-parenting-transitions, it was also of interest to compare the two types within each group. Participants were drawn from two schools. The first school included all 1,028 sixth- and seventh-grade students from the junior high school that served a Midwestern city of about 39,000 people. Result suggests that one-parenting-transition group and the two-parenting-transitions groups were not homogeneous. Adolescents living with single divorced mothers reported less authoritarian parenting than did those living with single divorced fathers. Adolescents living with stepfathers reported more permissive parenting than did those living with stepmothers. The heterogeneity of the one-and two-parenting-transition groups suggests that the parenting-transition approach may be more complex than initially believed.
- Subjects
PARENTING; CHILD rearing; HOME environment; FAMILIES; TEENAGERS; DIVORCED parents
- Publication
Journal of Family Issues, 1993, Vol 14, Issue 2, p279
- ISSN
0192-513X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/019251393014002007