Young children ages two to six are generally the most fearful of parental separation, and often feel abandoned or confused.

Training should not be tried when the child is ill or under stress of a major life change: a new sibling, new home, parental separation, etc.

'Children at the threshold of adolescence...in the nine-to-twelve-year-old group' would seem to have particular vulnerabilities to parental separation.

He grew up in a household which he himself described as troubled by parental separation and the long-term presence of a mentally ill grandmother.

As time went on, the Deans were affected by affairs and parental separation, more typical of the soap's other families.

Draft legislation will be published to safeguard the welfare of children in circumstances of parental separation and inter-country adoption.

Birth father-the biological father of a child who, due to adoption or parental separation, does not raise the child or cannot take care of one.

Legal presumption of reasonable parenting time in the event of parental separation.

It then looks at significant events in the patient's life such as parental separation, abuse, education, psychosexual development, peer relationships, behavioural aspects and any legal complications.

Even children, mostly girls, who at first seem to take parental separation in stride may have problems years later.