Durability So marriages When Children Affected by Cancer

Durability So marriages When Children Affected by Cancer - Although the disease in children can cause severe stress, a new study from Denmark found that marriage and partnerships and the parents of children with cancer will not fall apart.

"The study, featured in the journal Pediatrics that dispel the myth that cancer occurring in children would undermine marriage and family relationships. This is totally untrue," said Anne Kazak, professor of pediatrics at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia as reported from HealthDay, Friday (13/04/2012).

Cancer in children is rare even though cancer is a major disease causing death of children under the age of 15 years. According to the National Cancer Institute, an average of one to two of the 10,000 children with cancer each year.

In this new study, researchers studied the parents of 2450 children (over age 20 years) who were diagnosed with cancer between 1980-1997. This group was compared with a group of parents of 44 853 children who did not have cancer, and following its development over 20 years.

Even after these findings adapted to high and low income parents, researchers found that children with cancer have no effect on the tendency of couples to split up.

"You can imagine that you could have found an increased risk for several cancers in marriage, but we did not find any way even though we analyzed the data," said another researcher, Dr. Christian Johansen, who is also head of the Unit of Survivorship at the Danish Cancer Society, Copenhagen.

"Having a child with cancer does not appear to be risk factors for divorce," says Johansen.

Why parents of children with cancer can be so tough? Johansen said, "I think parents have a relationship that is capable of handling the problems and pressures that exist because you only need to do to live a daily life".

Yet according to Kazak, have children of parents with cancer put under intense pressure.

"Learning to understand that your child has cancer to be one of the most distressing experiences that may occur and be sad at this condition is normal," he said.

Families should focus his energy on the treatment and support for children and children with other cancers.

"It is important to remember that a couple's relationship is also important that it needs to consider specific ways to continue to communicate, solve problems together and stay connected," says Johansen.