developmental disabilities
; divorce
; parenting
; family size
Publication Year
2015-11-01
Publisher
American Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities
Citation
American Journal on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, vol. 120, no. 6, pp. 514 - 526
Abstract
We prospectively examined the risk of divorce in 190 parents of children with developmental disabilities compared to 7,251 parents of children without disabilities based on a random sample drawn from the community and followed longitudinally for over 50 years. A significant interaction between the parental group status and number of children was found: In the comparison group, having a larger number of children was related to an increased risk of divorce, whereas the number of children did not increase divorce risk among parents of children with developmental disabilities.
