Jongens en jonge mannen na ouderlijke scheiding

This article examines the effects of parental divorce on the well-being of boys and young men between 12 and 30 years of age. We compare young men from divorced families both with young men from intact families and with young women. Compared to young men from intact families, young men from divorced families tend to have more externalizing problems, including risky habits. Male children of divorced families enter into relations at an early age and usually are more sexually experienced compared with male children from intact families. However, young men in general and also young men after parental divorce postpone marriage and fatherhood compared with young women

Das Wohlbefinden der Väter und die Wochenarbeitszeit der Mutter

This investigation studies the relation between the well-being of fathers and the number of hours that their wives work outside the home. Two groups of fathers were involved in the investigation: the modern, caring fathers, and the more traditional fathers, who are often in full-time employment outside the home. It would appear to be true for both groups that the amount of hours their wives work, correlates negatively with the well-being of fathers both physically and mentally. Two hypotheses were compared: does the well-being of fathers correlate mainly with the actual absence of the wife, measured by the absolute number of hours that she works? Or does it correlate more with ‘symbolic’ factors, measured by her relative share in the family income or the relative number of hours that she works (her working hours compared with his). Confirmation was found for both hypotheses, but the unfulfilled husband hypothesis had the most support. Financial factors play a rather less important role. Finally, it must be observed that the number of hours that men themselves work still has a positive correlation with their well-being