Legal dissolution of an officially recognized marriage relationship.

The social institution involving legal and/or religious sanction whereby individuals are joined together.

Non-consumption of ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES.

The formally authorized guardianship or care of a CHILD.

A demographic parameter indicating a person's status with respect to marriage, divorce, widowhood, singleness, etc.

A personality disorder characterized by overly reactive and intensely expressed or overly dramatic behavior, proneness to exaggeration, emotional excitability, and disturbances in interpersonal relationships.

A personality disorder characterized by the avoidance of accepting deserved blame and an unwarranted view of others as malevolent. The latter is expressed as suspiciousness, hypersensitivity, and mistrust.

Factors associated with the definitive onset of a disease, illness, accident, behavioral response, or course of action. Usually one factor is more important or more obviously recognizable than others, if several are involved, and one may often be regarded as "necessary". Examples include exposure to specific disease; amount or level of an infectious organism, drug, or noxious agent, etc.

The state of having lost a marital partner by death.

Children who have reached maturity or the legal age of majority.

Behavioral, psychological, and social relations among various members of the nuclear family and the extended family.

Struggle or disagreement between parents, parent and child or other members of a family.

Those occurrences, including social, psychological, and environmental, which require an adjustment or effect a change in an individual's pattern of living.

Persons functioning as natural, adoptive, or substitute parents. The heading includes the concept of parenthood as well as preparation for becoming a parent.