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- Title
EFFECTS OF PARENT RESIDENCY ARRANGEMENTS ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF PRIMARY SCHOOL-AGED CHILDREN.
- Authors
Pike, Lisbeth T.
- Abstract
The article examines the effects of different parent residency arrangements on the growth of competence and self-esteem in primary-school age children in Australia. Permanent parental separation and divorce is increasingly a part of the fabric of contemporary Australian life. Over the past thirty years statistics have revealed that there has been a steady increase in divorce rates, with current Australian Bureau of Statistic figure indicating that two in every five marriages will in divorce. The article presents data collected on children in the late 1990s from post-separation and divorced single-parent families in Western Australia. There were a total of 272 participants in the study comprising 136 children (72 girls and 64 boys) from one-parent households and 136 children from two-parent households. Participants were drawn from a total of 45 schools--35 state and ten private schools. Findings suggest that on the whole, most children will make satisfactory adjustments and cope adequately with these changes to family structure and family process resource.
- Subjects
AUSTRALIA; PARENTS; PERFORMANCE; SELF-esteem; SINGLE-parent families; CHILDREN
- Publication
Family Matters, 2000, Issue 57, p40
- ISSN
1030-2646
- Publication type
Article