Adolescents' Perception of their Parents and Parents' Marital Status

Abstract

Summary One important aspect of the family literature has been the relationship between parental marital status and various facets of children's psychological and social lives. Yet, this research too often has been carried out on clinical samples of parents and/or children. Moreover, the emphasis has been either on widowed or on divorced families. In contrast, the present study focused on perceptions of their fathers and mothers by a representative sample (N = 4539) of all Montreal Francophone teenagers in school. We found that adolescents perceived their separated or divorced fathers the most negatively, their widowed or still-married fathers the most positively. Perceptions of mothers differed little by parental marital status and the trends indicated a least favorable perception of widowed mothers, followed by separated mothers, and, most favorably, of mothers in legally intact families.

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