SUPPORT AND ADVICE FROM MARRIED AND DIVORCED FATHERS - LINKAGES TO ADOLESCENT ADJUSTMENT

This study examined whether aspects of the father-adolescent relationship accounted for differences in adjustment betwen 748 adolescents from two-parent families and 109 from divorced families and considered variability in postdivorce fathering and adjustment. Late adolescents in divorced families were more depressed than those in married families, but did not differ in self-esteem. Divorced-family adolescents received less advice from fathers and were less satisfied with paternal support, accounting for their greater depression. In divorced families, adolescents with frequent paternal visitation received the most advice and support and were least depressed.