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Abstract: Sibling relationships are potentially positive forms of lifelong support and can lead to physical and mental well-being, but only when they are healthy. Negative sibling relationships can have the opposite effect. (Riggio, 2001) There are many factors that might affect this relationship between children, however, I chose to look specifically at family structure and parental separation. I used the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health Wave I to examine the relationship between family structure and sibling relationships for 1138 children in grades 7-12 during the 1994-1995 school year. After examining how family structure affects the frequency of feelings of love siblings have for one another and the frequency of fighting between siblings, the Chi-Squared tests revealed there was only a significant association between the frequency of sibling fighting and children with no biological parents in the household.
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