Abstract
The effect of divorce on the relationship between young adults' relationships with parents and siblings was examined. The data were drawn from an earlier study in which a sample of 207 young adults from divorced and intact families had completed demographic questionnaires as well as measures of parent-child and sibling relationships. Positive correlations were found between the father-child and male sibling relationship and between the mother-child and female sibling relationship in the divorced sample. None of the correlations between parent-child and sibling relationships attained significance in the intact sample. The present findings suggest that divorce affects adult sibling relationships along gender lines with the adult sibling relationship congruent with the parent-child relationship of the same gender. The results are discussed in terms of post-divorce living arrangements, as well as the polarization of relationships with parents that occurs as a consequence of divorce.
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