@article{ref1,
title="Separation/divorce and child and adolescent completed suicide",
journal="Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry",
year="1998",
author="Gould, Madelyn S. and Shaffer, David and Fisher, Prudence and Garfinkel, R.",
volume="37",
number="2",
pages="155-162",
abstract="OBJECTIVE: To investigate factors that may modify the effect of separation/divorce on youth suicide. METHOD: A case-control, psychological autopsy study of 120 of 170 consecutive suicides younger than age 20 and 147 community age-, sex-, and ethnic group-matched controls living in the greater New York area was conducted. Fifty-eight suicide victims and 49 community controls came from nonintact families of origin, indicating the permanent separation/divorce of the biological parents. Potential modifiers of separation/divorce include youth's age at separation, custodial parent's remarriage, nonresidential parent's frequency of contact, parent-child relationships, and parental psychopathology. RESULTS: The relatively small impact of separation/divorce was further diminished after accounting for parental psychopathology. An interaction of separation/divorce and the father-child relationship emerged. CONCLUSION: The dramatic increase in youth suicide during the past three decades seems unlikely to be attributable to the increase in divorce rates.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0890-8567",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}