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- Title
Parental Divorce, Residence Arrangements, and Contact Between Grandchildren and Grandparents.
- Authors
Jappens, Maaike; Van Bavel, Jan
- Abstract
When parents divorce, grandparents can play a supportive role in the lives of their grandchildren, but a parental divorce may also put grandchild-grandparent ties under pressure. In this study the authors investigated how grandchildren of married and divorced parents differ in the frequency of face-to-face contacts with grandparents and how this is mediated by postdivorce residence arrangements. Based on the multi-actor survey 'Divorce in Flanders,' they used reports of contact provided by more than 1,000 grandchildren and compared them with more than 1,100 grandparent reports for validation. The results showed that grandchildren from divorced parents have fewer contacts with their grandparents than grandchildren whose parents are married but that it is the postdivorce residence arrangement of grandchildren that produces this result. When grandchildren live with their divorced father or in a shared residence arrangement, they even see paternal grandparents more often than grandchildren with married parents.
- Subjects
DIVORCE lawyers; DIVORCE statistics; MARITAL satisfaction; MARITAL adjustment; MARITAL relations
- Publication
Journal of Marriage & Family, 2016, Vol 78, Issue 2, p451
- ISSN
0022-2445
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/jomf.12275