Social Supports Received and Desired

Abstract

Interviews were conducted with 15 recently divorced parents (12 mothers and 3 fathers) about the ways in which their parents and their parents-in-law support them. Divorced parents reported that their parents were important providers of support. The most welcome type of support was emotional or practical in nature. A third of the sample of divorced parents reported receiving unwelcome advice from their parents. Divorced parents reported that their parents-in-law provided very little support; it was more common for . participants to report wanting more support from parents-in-law than they currently receive. We present recommendations for clinicians to help divorced clients to make clear requests from their parents and parents-in-law and to help such clients develop ways of dealing with unwelcome involvement. Finally, we suggest directions for future research.

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