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Published on: September 19, 2019
Parental marital status and adolescents' optimism about their future
1Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, Université the Montréal, and Centre for Research in Pediatrics at Ste. Justine Hospital, Montréal.
Abstract:
This article reports the results of a questionnaire survey of a representative random sample of all the schooled French-speaking adolescents of Montreal (N=4539). The sample included adolescents from legally intact homes, separated or divorced homes, and homes in which a parent was deceased. Three indicators of future success were included; adolescents from both types of broken families were less optimistic on all three dimensions than were adolescents from intact families. These results are discussed within a socioeconomic framework.
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