Loyalty Conflicts and Family Relationships in Latency Age Boys: A Comparison of Joint and Maternal Custody.

Shiller, Virginia M.

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Publication Date: 1986

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Loyalty Conflicts and Family Relationships in Latency Age Boys: A Comparison of Joint and Maternal Custody.

Shiller, Virginia M.

Journal of Divorce, v9 n4 p17-38 Sum 1986

Examined divorce-related emotional adjustment in boys aged 6-11 living in maternal (N=20) or joint (N=20) physical custody. Found no group differences in child-administered loyalty conflict measure. Results indicated that boys in joint custody were comfortable expressing negative and positive feelings toward parents, were not preoccupied with parental reconciliation fantasies. (Author/NB)

Descriptors: Child Custody, Childhood Attitudes, Children, Divorce, Emotional Adjustment, Males, Parent Attitudes, Parent Child Relationship

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