Marital Adjustment in Parents of Children with Disabilities: A Historical Review and Meta-Analysis

By Don Risdal, G. Singer. 2004

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Parenting Success and Challenges for Families of Children with Disabilities: An Ecological Systems Analysis (2013, background): “A meta-analytic study by Risdal and Singer (2004), which examined a body of research on marital satisfaction/discord in parents of children with and without developmental disabilities, found a much smaller effect of children’s disability on parents’ marital relationships.”
Marital Satisfaction, Parental Stress, and Child Behavior Problems among Parents of Young Children with Developmental Delays (2015, background): “…lower levels of marital adjustment and satisfaction than parents of typically developing children (Santamaria et. al., 2012; Kersh, at al., 2006; Risdal and Singer, 2004), other studies have found no differences in marital satisfaction between parents of children with or without DD (Donovan,…”
Parents of Children with High Functioning Autism: How Well Do They Cope and Adjust? (2009, background): “A recent meta-analysis study on marital adjustment in parents of children with disabilities found a smaller effect on parents’ marital relationships as compared to the long standing assumption of marital discord among parents of children with a disability ( Risdal and Singer 2004 ).”
Parenting Children With Autism Spectrum Disorders (2009, unknown): “%) is smaller than many would expect (Risdal & Singer, 2004).”