The long-term improvement in father–child relationships after divorce:Descriptive findings from the Netherlands

BACKGROUND Little is known about how the negative effect of parental divorce on father–child relations has changed over time. Existing cohort studies do not contain questions on father–child relationships after divorce and the investigated time period is often short. OBJECTIVE The aim of this study is to describe long-term changes in the association between parental divorce and father–child contact. METHOD We used pooled cross-sectional surveys from the Netherlands (N = 24,172) containing retrospective questions about respondents’ relations with parents during childhood. We compared divorce co... Mehr ...