Department of Sociology, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
J Gerontol B Psychol Sci Soc Sci. 2016 Mar;71(2):332-43. doi: 10.1093/geronb/gbu141. Epub 2014 Oct 8.
Studies have shown that a parental divorce has a negative effect on parent-child relations. This study examines how adult children's divorce affects the amount of contact children have with older parents, making a distinction between the effects of being single on the one hand and the effects of divorce on the other hand.
Using data on older adults in 11 European countries, I estimate within-family regression models to compare multiple adult children per parent (19,454 children aged 30-49; 10,476 parents aged 50-96). I analyze contact frequency while taking into account coresidence and distance.
When comparing single divorced children and married children, no difference in contact is observed, but divorced children are more likely to live with their parents. When comparing among children who are single, divorced children have less frequent contact with parents than never-married children. This negative divorce effect exists for sons and daughters and is found in 9 of the 11 countries.
The divorce of a child has a double meaning: it leads to being single, which is associated with stronger intergenerational ties, but it is also a non-normative and stressful life event, which is associated with weaker intergenerational ties.
研究表明，父母离婚对亲子关系有负面影响。本研究考察了成年子女离婚如何影响子女与年长父母的接触程度，区分了单身和离婚的影响。
利用 11 个欧洲国家的老年人数据，我们使用家庭内回归模型比较了每个父母的多个成年子女（30-49 岁的 19454 名儿童；50-96 岁的 10476 名父母）。在考虑共同居住和距离的情况下，我们分析了接触频率。
在比较单身离异子女和已婚子女时，没有观察到接触方面的差异，但离异子女更有可能与父母同住。在比较单身子女时，离异子女与父母的接触频率低于未婚子女。这种离婚的负面影响存在于儿子和女儿中，在 11 个国家中的 9 个国家中都有发现。
孩子离婚具有双重含义：它导致单身，这与更强的代际联系有关，但它也是一个非规范和有压力的生活事件，与较弱的代际联系有关。
