The Relationship Between Marital Disruption and Adolescent Values

Abstract

A sample of 16,411 year nine and year ten pupils throughout England and Wales completed a detailed inventory of values. The responses of those whose parents have experienced separation or divorce are compared with those whose parents have not experienced this form of family disruption. Significant differences are found The Revd. profess& ~eslie J. ~& i s is the D J James Professor of Pastoral Theology and Mansel Jones Fellow at Trinity College, Carmarthen, Dyfed Wales