title: The significance of a child's age at the time of parental divorce.
abstract: The literature on children of divorce presents three theories on the relationship between a child's age at divorce and subsequent adaptation. Outpatient evaluations of 144 children of divorce, ranging in age from seven to 17 years, were coded for nature of emotional-behavioral problems and overall degree of psychological adjustment. Divorce timing was unrelated to overall level of adjustment, but was associated significantly with different constellations of emotional-behavioral difficulties.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000367:Age Factors; D000374:Aggression; D002648:Child; D002653:Child Behavior Disorders / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000523:psychology; D004243:Divorce; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007182:Income; D007837:Latency Period, Psychological; D008297:Male; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000523:psychology; D009813:Oedipus Complex; D010287:Parent-Child Relations; D012737:Sex Factors