title: Child disablement, family dissolution and reconstitution.
abstract: The results of a study of a nationally representative sample of disabled children and controls are presented. The findings suggest that although, at any one time, families containing a disabled child are not no more likely to be one-parent families, disabled children do appear to be more likely to experience a spell in a one-parent family at some time in their lives. Where these spells occur, they are of longer duration than for the general population, which suggests that family reconstitution may be more difficult where a disabled child is present.
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D006233:Persons with Disabilities / Q000523:psychology*; D005191:Family Characteristics; D006801:Humans; D013997:Time Factors