Categorizations of structure living arrangements of adolescents after parental separation

Abstract

Categorisations of structure living arrangements of adolescents after parental separation This study identified the different categorisations of "living arrangements of adolescents" after parental separation in the literature and examined the situations in which health and wellbeing differences were observed amongst adolescents. Twentytwo peer-reviewed articles based on original data produced by self-administered questionnaires, issued from quantitative studies were selected. Grouping studies according to the type of custody categorisation allowed the comparison of different studies using the same categorisation. It is of note that the same categorisation of adolescent custody gave rise to inconsistent results in terms of health and wellbeing outcomes.

Eight-year Changes in Adolescent Self-rated Health and Life Satisfaction in Relation to Living Arrangement

“…Firstly, there is the weakness in the definitions of the terms or concepts underlying these analyses. There is also a lack of contextualization of the situations of the adolescents concerned: age of the adolescents at the time of the study, at the time of the separation, the contextual social norms regarding divorce and parental separation and the great variability of the health and well-being indicators (Dujeu & Godin, 2019) With regard to the proportion of young people living in families with separated parents, the Belgian situation does not differ from other Western European countries, the proportion of adolescents not living with both parents in Belgium is about 35% (Inchley et al, 2020). Since 2006, a Belgian law recommends the shared physical custody for the children after the divorce of a parental couple (Sodermans, Matthijs, Swicegood et al, 2013).…”