ArticleDemography2019
Do Children Carry the Weight of Divorce?
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- Effects of a digital psychosocial intervention on somatic complaints, sleep latency problems, and body size perceptions in youth after parental separation: A randomized controlled trial.PLOS digital health · 2026Article
- The impact of web-based education provided to parents on the nutritional risk of preschoolers: A quasi-experimental study.Maternal & child nutrition · 2025Article
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- Analyzing the Impact of Family Structure Changes on Children's Stress Levels Using a Stress Biomarker.Journal of health and social behavior · 2024Article
- Carry that weight: Parental separation and children's Body Mass Index from childhood to young adulthood.Advances in life course research · 2024Article
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- Adverse childhood experiences and pre-pregnancy body mass index in the HUNT study: A population-based cohort study.PloS one · 2023Article
- Early childhood family background predicts meal frequency behaviour in children: Five-year follow-up study.Scandinavian journal of public health · 2022Article
- Parental Traits Associated with Adherence to the Mediterranean Diet in Children and Adolescents in Croatia: A Cross-Sectional Study.Nutrients · 2022Article
- The mediating pathways between parental separation in childhood and offspring hypertension at midlife.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- A genetic basis for friendship? Homophily for membrane-associated PDE11A-cAMP-CREB signaling in CA1 of hippocampus dictates mutual social preference in male and female mice.Molecular psychiatry · 2021Article
- Food addiction: A key factor contributing to obesity?Journal of research in medical sciences : the official journal of Isfahan University of Medical Sciences · 2020Article
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Abstract
Relatively few studies have examined the physical health of children who experience parental separation. The few studies on this topic have largely focused on the United States and have used cross-sectional designs. Our study investigates the relationship between parental separation and children's body mass index (BMI) and overweight/obesity risk using the UK Millennium Cohort Study. Treating parental separation as a process, we analyze variations in children's physical health before and after the date of their parents' separation in order to capture potential anticipation, adaptation, delayed, or cumulative effects. We estimate fixed-effects models to account for the potential correlation between children's physical health and unobserved factors associated with parental separation, such as socioeconomic background and other time-invariant parental characteristics. We find no evidence of statistically significant anticipation effects in the build-up to parental separation or of statistically significant changes in children's physical health immediately after separation. However, our results show that in the longer term, the BMI of children whose parents separate significantly deviates from the BMI of children from intact families. Furthermore, this association is especially strong for separations that occur when children are under age 6.
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