title: The effects of parental divorce: experiences of the child in early latency.
abstract: This paper discusses the impact of divorce on 26 children in early latency, as observed shortly after the initial parental separation and one year later. The material is part of a larger clinical study, begun in 1970, of 131 children and adolescents from 60 divorcing families.
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000367:Age Factors; D002648:Child; D002657:Child Development; D003717:Denial, Psychological; D004243:Divorce; D005201:Fantasy; D005219:Father-Child Relations; D005239:Fear; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006117:Grief; D006801:Humans; D007837:Latency Period, Psychological; D008297:Male; D009034:Mother-Child Relations; D011606:Psychosexual Development; D012059:Rejection, Psychology; D012737:Sex Factors; D013997:Time Factors