parental divorce
collocation in Englishmeaningsofparentalanddivorce
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parental
adjective
uk/pəˈren.təl/us/pəˈren.t̬əl/
relating to parents or to being ...
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divorce
noun
uk/dɪˈvɔːs/us/dɪˈvɔːrs/
an official or legal process to end ...
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(Definition ofparentalanddivorcefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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For men, bothparentaldivorceand age at completion of education showed significant effects during the central, interquartile partnership formation phase.
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We focused onparentaldivorcethat occurred before the participants became age 15.
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Items pertaining toparentaldivorcewas dropped to avoid any confound.
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The model stipulates, however, that the effect ofparentaldivorceon the risk of onset is con5.
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An interaction betweenparentaldivorceand age at assessment was included to examine if the effect of parental divorce increased or decreased as individuals aged.
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Next, we added a series of potential confounds, beginning with childhood social class,parentaldivorce, and length of full-time education.
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Of course,parentaldivorceis often accompanied by a decline in the quality of the parent-child relationship, as found in our data.
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It is therefore likely that support giving by adult children is lower afterparentaldivorce.
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More importantly, the association betweenparentaldivorceand adolescents' depressive symptoms was mediated by stressors experienced around the time when their parents divorced.
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As found in many longitudinal studies, however, they differed in two independent variables:parentaldivorceand stressful life events.
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Implicitly, each of these examples uses individual contextual characteristics- family size, child maltreatment, andparentaldivorce-to predict the risk of event occurrence.
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The authors conclude that the nature of the relationship beforeparentaldivorcewas an important predictor of the post-divorce relationship.
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Young adults' relations with grandparents following recentparentaldivorce.
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These individuals were not classified in the divorced group in this study because theirparentaldivorce occurred after early adolescence; instead they were assigned to the nondivorced group.
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It appears that children who live in single-parent families as a result ofparentaldivorcemay be at a higher risk for the development of psychological and behavioral difficulties.
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Parentaldivorce, incarceration, and unemployment are only a few examples of the frequent adverse events to which our students are exposed.
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