TY  - JOUR
T1  - Risk of parental dissolution of partnership following the loss of a child to cancer: A population-based long-term follow-up
AU  - Eilegård A, Kreicbergs U
Y1  - 2010/01/01
N1  - 10.1001/archpediatrics.2009.247
JO  - Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine
SP  - 100
EP  - 101
VL  - 164
IS  - 1
N2  - 
A common belief is that bereaved parents are more likely to separate than others, but previous research has been unable to settle this issue owing to conflicting findings.1- 2 Parents of a child with cancer are at increased risk of psychological distress3 and possibly also marital strain.4- 5 Sirki et al5 studied parents who lost a child during active cancer treatment or terminal care and found that divorce was significantly more common among couples with a child in terminal care compared with a child in active cancer therapy. No conclusive studies on long-term marital status in parents having lost a child to cancer have been conducted. Therefore, we assessed parental dissolution of a partnership 4 to 9 years following the loss of a child to cancer compared with parents from the general population.

SN  - 1072-4710
M3  - doi: 10.1001/archpediatrics.2009.247
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archpediatrics.2009.247
ER  -