Divorce after child dies

People often ask us about statistics on parents getting divorced after a child dies. Prof. Rick Froman of John Brown University in Arkansas sent me an article refuting the popular belief that divorce is more likely, or even inevitable, in that situation. Here are links to where you can download that article and others on the topic by the same authors.

I think the sites all require subsctiptions or some form of payment to download the entire articles, but the abstracts and citations are free.

Shirley A. Murphy, L. Clark Johnson, Janet Lohan (2003)    
        Challenging the Myths About Parents' Adjustment After the Sudden, Violent Death of a Child    
    Journal of Nursing Scholarship 35 (4), 359–364.

"THE EFFECTIVENESS OF COPING RESOURCES AND STRATEGIES USED BY BEREAVED PARENTS 1 AND 5 YEARS AFTER THE VIOLENT DEATHS OF THEIR CHILDREN", Volume 47, Number 1/2003 of OMEGA: The Journal of Death and  Dying

Lohan & Murphy (2002), Family Functioning and Family Typology after an Adolescent or Young Adult’s Sudden Violent Death