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• Longitudinal study of 144 middle-class White families in the USA (Hetherington & Stanley-Hagan,1999) half sample divorced (average child age at divorce 4 years
• 1 year follow up: divorced children showed higher internalising and externalisingproblems
• daughter showed similar adujustment comparing married and non marrying mothers whereas sons showed higher externalsing probllems compared to non divorced sons
• mothers who married two years after the follow up kids showed hhigher externalsing problems
• mothers who remarried prioer to 2 years before the follow up duaghter showed higher externalsing problmes and internalsing problems whereas sons show no differnce to non divorced familes
• Highest externalising problems in step-families■ Highest internalising problems in lone parent families

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