There is abundant, well-controlled empirical research that demonstrates the harmful effects of divorce and continuing parental conflict on children.

Can we really accept that her most trying parental conflict is being forced to befriend a pseudo Kathie Lee Gifford?

Is there parental conflict?

And of course it's a ripe opportunity for parental conflict and guilt.

It is usually the teenage years that create the biggest parental conflicts over friends.

The problems of children associated with divorce are not necessarily results of the divorce but of the parental conflict that accompanied it.

The protagonist deals with parental conflict by rejecting or bonding with parents.

One thing on which all the social scientists agree is that parental conflict is bad for children in divorced families.

These studies suggest that parental conflict during the marriage as well as after it ends is a major cause of youngsters' behavioral and academic problems.

Still, Dr. Wallerstein noted, there was considerable variation in the youngsters' response to parental conflict.