title: Parental marital status and adolescents' optimism about their future.
abstract: This article reports the results of a questionnaire survey of a representative random sample of all the schooled French-speaking adolescents of Montreal (N=4539). The sample included adolescents from legally intact homes, separated or divorced homes, and homes in which a parent was deceased. Three indicators of future success were included; adolescents from both types of broken families were less optimistic on all three dimensions than were adolescents from intact families. These results are discussed within a socioeconomic framework.
authors: Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, Université the Montréal, and Centre for Research in Pediatrics at Ste. Justine Hospital, Montréal.
authors: J F
authors: JF
authors: Saucier
authors: A M
authors: AM
authors: Ambert