Your Cousin Is Going Through a Divorce and Asks What

question 109

Multiple Choice

Your cousin is going through a divorce and asks what you know about how parent and child relationships change after a divorce. You tell her,

• A)"In the first few months after a divorce, parent‒child relations are essentially the same as they were before the divorce."
• B)"In the first few months after a divorce, parents expect children to behave more maturely and children tend to conform to that expectation."
• C)"By two years after a divorce, fathers often have become relatively uninvolved with their children."
• D)"By six years after a divorce, mothers and sons often have close relationships, but mothers and daughters frequently have problematic relationships."

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