TY - JOUR
T1 - Child health and parental relationships
T2 - Examining relationship termination among Danish parents with and without a child with disabilities or chronic illness
AU - Loft, Lisbeth Trille Gylling
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - Using longitudinal national-level representative data from Denmark, this study considers the link between child disability or chronic illness and parental relationship termination as measured by the point in time at which one parent, following the breakup of the relationship, no longer resides in the household. By means of event-history techniques, I examine whether a Danish family's experience of having a child diagnosed with a disability or chronic illness affects the chances of parental relationship termination. My findings suggest that families with a child with disabilities or chronic illness do have a higher risk of parental relationship termination, when compared to families where no diagnosis of child disability or chronic illness is reported.
AB - Using longitudinal national-level representative data from Denmark, this study considers the link between child disability or chronic illness and parental relationship termination as measured by the point in time at which one parent, following the breakup of the relationship, no longer resides in the household. By means of event-history techniques, I examine whether a Danish family's experience of having a child diagnosed with a disability or chronic illness affects the chances of parental relationship termination. My findings suggest that families with a child with disabilities or chronic illness do have a higher risk of parental relationship termination, when compared to families where no diagnosis of child disability or chronic illness is reported.
U2 - 10.2753/IJS0020-7659410102
DO - 10.2753/IJS0020-7659410102
M3 - Journal article
SN - 0020-7659
VL - 41
SP - 27
EP - 47
JO - International Journal of Sociology
JF - International Journal of Sociology
IS - 1
ER -