Your Cousin Is Going Through a Divorce and Asks What

Multiple Choice

Your cousin is going through a divorce and asks what you know about how parent and child relationships change after a divorce. You tell her,

A) "In the first few months after a divorce, parent‒child relations are essentially the same as they were before the divorce."
B) "In the first few months after a divorce, parents expect children to behave more maturely and children tend to conform to that expectation."
C) "By two years after a divorce, fathers often have become relatively uninvolved with their children."
D) "By six years after a divorce, mothers and sons often have close relationships, but mothers and daughters frequently have problematic relationships."