Journal Article

Research on Divorce: Continuing Trends and New Developments

Amato, Paul R.

2010

Overview

Research on divorce during the past decade has focused on a range of topics, including the predictors of divorce, associations between divorce and the well-being of children and former spouses, and interventions for divorcing couples. Methodological advances during the past decade include a greater reliance on nationally representative longitudinal samples, genetically informed designs, and statistical models that control for time-invariant sources of unobserved heterogeneity. Emerging perspectives, such as a focus on the number of family transitions rather than on divorce as a single event, are promising. Nevertheless, gaps remain in the research literature, and the review concludes with suggestions for new studies.

• Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Ltd,National Council on Family Relations,Wiley-Blackwell,Wiley
• Subject: Adolescents / Adopted children / adult outcomes / African Americans / Bibliographic Databases / child/adolescent outcomes / Children / Cohabitation / Community Surveys / Couples / Cubans / Cultural Influences / Demography / Divorce / Divorce rates / Family / Family (Sociological Unit) / family policy / Family relations / Family structure / General studies / Genetics / Hispanic Americans / History and organization of sociology / History and present state / History, theory and methodology / Interpersonal Relationship / Intervention / Literature reviews / Longitudinal Studies / Marital Status / Marriage / Marriage Counseling / Marriage, Family Processes, and Well-Being / Methodology / Mexican Americans / National Surveys / Parents / Predictor Variables / Research trends / Researchers / Social change / Social Class / Social conditions & trends / Sociology / Sociology of the family. Age groups / Spouses / State Surveys / Statistical Analysis / Statistical models / Trends / Well Being / Wellbeing / Whites