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DEVELOPMENTAL FEATURES IN CHILDREN OF DIVORCE

"Where Is My Daddy's House?"

Preschool-Age Children of Divorce and Transitional Phenomena - A Study

Ruth Stirtzinger MD, MA, FRCP(C) Faculty of the University of Toronto, Department of Psychiatry, and Staff Psychiatrist, Clarke Institiute of Psychiatry, Family and Child Studies Centre, Toronto, ON, Canada
Pages 139-151 | Published online: 25 Oct 2008
 
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Abstract

Preschool-age children of divorce not living in the family home show specific discrete longing for it. After divorce the family home may allow the preschool-age child the necessary mental image of access to both his parents-"transitional representation" at a time of decreasing family structure.

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