Effect of childhood age in foster care on the incidence of divorce in adulthood
| Autor: | James S.M. Rusby |
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| Rok vydání: | 2010 |
| Předmět: |
Adult
Male Family therapy Adolescent Context (language use) Foster Home Care Developmental psychology Divorce Surveys and Questionnaires Attachment theory Humans Child General Psychology Aged Incidence Incidence (epidemiology) World War II Middle Aged Object Attachment humanities Social relation Foster care Child Preschool Female Psychology Childhood age Demography |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Family Psychology. 24:101-104 |
| ISSN: | 1939-1293 0893-3200 |
| Popis: | This retrospective study examines the long-term effect of the age at which British children were fostered in World War II on their divorce rate. A total of 859 respondents, aged 62 to 72 years, were recruited who had childhood homes in the county of Kent in southeast England during the war. Of these, 770 had been evacuated and fostered, and the remainder stayed at home. Reflecting the wartime concerns of Bowlby, Miller, and Winnicott (1939) regarding the wisdom of separating young children from their parents for a potentially long period, male and female respondents evacuated between the ages of 4 to 6 years had a significantly higher incidence of divorce compared with those in the 13- to 15-year age group. This association was found to be mediated by attachment style in which the fearful category was predominant. The relevance of these results in the broader developmental context, and to family counseling, are briefly discussed. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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