Acknowledgements
The authors would like to thank Paul-Marie Huot (Université de Montréal) for his unique competence with the National Longitudinal Survey on Children and Youth (NLSCY) family and custody history data.
This research was part of a larger Human Resources Development Canada (HRDC) Directed Research Program on The Impact Of Parents' Conjugal Behaviour On Their Children's Cognitive And PsychoSocial Development carried out conjointly with Richard E. Tremblay and Bernard Boulerice of the Université de Montréal.