The Transmission of Marital Instability across Generations: Relationship Skills or Commitment to Marriage?

By Paul R. Amato, Danelle D. DeBoer. 2001

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Subfields: Demography, Health, Sociology and Political Science

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Sliding Versus Deciding: Inertia and the Premarital Cohabitation Effect. (2006, result): “Rob and Emily have some pre-existing characteristics (e.g., parental divorce; Amato & DeBoer, 2001) that make them both wary of marriage and which are consistent with the selection perspective (e.g., low religiousness; Stanley et al., 2004); however, they see only benefits to living together.”
The differential effects of parental divorce and marital conflict on young adult romantic relationships (2010, background): “Amato and DeBoer (2001) suggested that marital discord had a moderating effect on the association between parental divorce and offspring’s probability of divorce.”
Inappropriate Parental Divorce Disclosures, the Factors that Prompt them, and their Impact on Parents’ and Adolescents’ Well-Being (2007, background): “If children are uninformed about the divorce, they can feel deceived, which can produce mistrust, diminished satisfaction with their parental communication (Thomas et al., 1995), and a fear of establishing committed romantic relationships later in life (Amato & DeBoer, 2001).”
Understanding and Altering the Longitudinal Course of Marriage (2004, background): “Amato and DeBoer (2001) demonstrated that self-reported marital behavior mediated the association between parental marital discord (but not parental divorce) and thoughts of divorce by the offspring: Spouses coming from families marked by more dissatisfaction between their parents were more likely…”
“Feeling caught” as a mediator of adolescents' and young adults' avoidance and satisfaction with their parents in divorced and non-divorced households (2003, background): “…researchers have only begun to examine the impact of parents’ interaction patterns on their children’s relationship with them post-divorce, numerous studies have investigated the overall amount of parents’ conflict and children’s well-being (e.g., Amato & DeBoer, 2001; Morrison & Coiro, 1999).”
Marital quality and health: A meta-analytic review (2013, background): “…and behaviors and low amounts of positive affect and behaviors also predict divorce, as do demographic variables like premarital births and teenage marriage (Amato & DeBoer, 2001), younger age at marriage (Amato & Hohmann-Marriott, 2007), and lower SES (Birditt, Brown, Orbuch, & McIlvane, 2010).”
Parental marital conflict and divorce, parent‐child relationships, social support, and relationship anxiety in young adulthood (2004, background): “Children from divorced families learn firsthand that marriages do not last a lifetime, that dissatisfying personal relationships should be ended, and that divorce allows pursuit of more satisfying relationships with other partners (Amato & DeBoer, 2001).”
Communication Processes that Predict Young Adults’ Feelings of Being Caught and their Associations with Mental Health and Family Satisfaction (2007, background): “For example, Amato and Booth (i.e., Amato & DeBoer, 2001; Amato, Loomis, & Booth, 1995; Booth & Amato, 2001) reported that the impact of divorce on children largely depends on the amount of parental conflict prior to the parents’ separation.”
Exposure to Interparental Conflict and Psychological Disorder Among Young Adults (2006, background): “Two longitudinal studies also found that parents’ ratings of levels of marital conflict were positively associated with their adult children’s later reports of conflict or problems in their own marriages (Amato & DeBoer, 2001; Caspi & Elder, 1988).”
The Unexpected Legacy of Divorce: Report of a 25-Year Study. (2004, background): “They found that adults raised in divorced families suffered from a deficit in social skills and had special problems in handling conflicts within their own marriages (Amato, 2000; Amato & DeBoer, 2001).”