TY - JOUR
AB -  RET; ANDERSON, EDWARD R.; DEAL, JAMES E.; STANLEY HAGAN, MARGA- HoLLiER, E. ANN; and LINDNER, MARJORIE S. Coping with Marital Transitions: A Family Systems Perspective. With Commentary by ELEANOR E. MAGGOBY. Monographs of the Society for Research in Chitd Develop- ment, 1992, 57(2-3, Serial No. 227). Almost half the children born in the last decade will experience the divorce of their parents, and many of these children will also go through the changes associated with their custodial parent's remarriage. Most children initially experience their parents' marital rearrangements as stressful; however, children's responses to their parents' marital transitions are diverse and are likely to vary with the age of the child and to change over time as family members adjust to their new circumstances. This longitudinal study examined family relationships and adolescents' adjustment during the transition to remarriage. Three groups of families were studied: stepfamilies with a divorced custodial mother who was in the first months of a remarriage; families with a divorced custodial mother who had not remarried; and nondivorced families. Families were assessed three times during a 26-month period, and there were approximately equal numbers of early adolescent male and female target children in each family type. 
TI - ABSTRACT
JF - Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development
DO - 10.1111/j.1540-5834.1992.tb00298.x
DA - 1992-02-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/wiley/abstract-9IUBCvyihT
SP - v
EP - vi
VL - 57
IS - 2‐3
DP - DeepDyve
ER -