Essen J, Lambert L
Child Care Health Dev. 1977 Sep-Oct;3(5):301-18. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2214.1977.tb00054.x.
The proportions of 16-year-olds in the National Child Development Study who are not living with both their natural parents in 1974 are examined and compared with proportions in earlier follow-ups. The children who have ever lived in one-parent families are selected for more detailed examination, such as the reasons for their parental situation, the age their families broke up and the ratio of motherless to fatherless at each age. The children's view of their relationship with their parents or new parent figures and their attitudes towards their own future marriage and family are considered and compared with those of children still living with both their own parents. The overall conclusion is that the differences in these respects between children in one and two-parent families are very slight, suggesting that the attitudes of children in one-parent families towards their future family life have not been greatly affected by their own childhood experiences.
对1974年全国儿童发展研究中16岁未与亲生父母双方同住的比例进行了考察，并与早期随访中的比例进行了比较。曾经生活在单亲家庭的孩子被挑选出来进行更详细的调查，比如他们父母状况的原因、家庭破裂时的年龄以及各年龄段中母亲缺失家庭与父亲缺失家庭的比例。还考虑了孩子们对自己与父母或新的家长角色关系的看法，以及他们对自己未来婚姻和家庭的态度，并与仍与亲生父母双方同住的孩子的看法和态度进行了比较。总体结论是，单亲家庭和双亲家庭的孩子在这些方面的差异非常小，这表明单亲家庭的孩子对自己未来家庭生活的态度并未受到自身童年经历的太大影响。
