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Divorce Process Variables and the Co‐Parental Relationship and Parental Role Fulfillment of Divorced Parents
Author(s) -
Baum Nehami
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
family process
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.011
H-Index - 74
eISSN - 1545-5300
pISSN - 0014-7370
DOI - 10.1111/j.1545-5300.2003.00117.x
Subject(s) - psychology , developmental psychology , association (psychology) , social psychology , psychotherapist
This study examines the association between two sets of divorce process variables, a initiation of and responsibility for the divorce and b) difficulty and duration of the legal procedure, and divorced spouses co‐parental relationship and parental functioning. In a random sample of 50 former couples, in Israel; findings showed that the longer and more conflictual the legal proceedings, the worse the co‐parental relationship in the view of both parents. They also showed that mothers' parental functioning was not significantly associated with any of the divorce variables, but fathers' were. The more responsibility the father assumed for the divorce and the more he viewed himself as the initiator, the more he fulfilled his parental functions. The findings are interpreted in the discussion, and their theoretical and practical implications considered.