Abstract
We prospectively examined the risk of divorce in 190 parents of children with developmental disabilities compared to 7,251 parents of children without disabilities based on a random sample drawn from the community and followed longitudinally for over 50 years. A significant interaction between the parental group status and number of children was found: In the comparison group, having a larger number of children was related to an increased risk of divorce, whereas the number of children did not increase divorce risk among parents of children with developmental disabilities.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 514-526 |
| Number of pages | 13 |
| Journal | American Journal on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities |
| Volume | 120 |
| Issue number | 6 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Nov 2015 |
Bibliographical note
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Keywords
- Developmental disabilities
- Divorce
- Family size
- Parenting