divorced parent

collocation in English

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divorced
adjective
uk
/dɪˈvɔːst/us
/dɪˈvɔːrst/
married in the past but not ...
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parent
noun[C]
uk
/ˈpeə.rənt/us
/ˈper.ənt/
a mother or father of a person or an animal, or someone who looks after a person in the same way that a ...
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If one of the parents dies or if they divorce, the usual pattern may be that the widowed\\divorcedparentmoves to the house of a child.
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What about adivorcedparent-in-law marrying his widowed child-in-law when the parent was divorced five years before his child even got married?
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The unreasonabledivorcedparentwill continue to be unreasonable and the reasonable, reasonable, whatever the change of name.
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Sometimes, in some families, the step-parent has greater responsibility for, and influence over, a child than adivorcedparent.
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This resulted in about 1.5% (around 1 million) children living in the house of a recentlydivorcedparentin the same year.
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Most divorced parents remain connected to each other through children, and thus still constitute a family.
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In other words, stressful life events that occurred shortly after divorce appeared to significantly increase vulnerability to depressive symptoms among children of divorced parents.
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Influences on sibling relations in families with married and divorced parents.
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Selectional biases may also have arisen in that males and subjects with divorced parents, both factors related to depressive disorder, had lower phase 1 response rates.
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Based on these earlier findings, we expected that children of divorced parents would exhibit higher depressive symptoms throughout adolescence and young adulthood than children from nondivorced families.
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The adjustment of children with divorced parents : a risk and resiliency perspective.
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She finds her divorced parents and older brother waiting near her bedside.
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Alvin wants his divorced parents to come together at the wedding.
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A child maintenance allowance is paid when a court-ordered maintenance payment for a child of divorced parents was not being paid.
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Children of divorced parents also achieve lower levels of socioeconomic status, income, and wealth accumulation than children of continuously married parents.
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Since by definition all children of divorced parents had lived in unhappy homes, they unsurprisingly reported numerous unhappy experiences.
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They also began selling advertising space on the website for services to help divorced parents with custody and visitation rights.
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They were both divorced parents who were in a relationship at the time.
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The three plot to bring their divorced parents back together again.
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She is the youngest of three girls born to her divorced parents.
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