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Children of Divorced Parents in Demographic Perspective
Author(s) -
Glick Paul C.
Publication year - 1979
Publication title -
journal of social issues
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.618
H-Index - 122
eISSN - 1540-4560
pISSN - 0022-4537
DOI - 10.1111/j.1540-4560.1979.tb00820.x
Subject(s) - psychology , perspective (graphical) , demography , developmental psychology , sociology , computer science , artificial intelligence
The rise in the number of children with divorced parents has been associated with many other demographic changes. Among the changes discussed are the increasing proportion of children under 18 who are of school age; who live with a stepparent; who spend some time in a one‐parent family; whose divorced parent has a college education; and who live with an unmarried couple. A projected one‐third of the children 18 years of age in 1990 will have lived with a divorced parent. It is assumed that the rate of divorce will increase more slowly in the next decade than in the last decade.