Glossary entry

Spanish term or phrase:

familias en ruptura conyugal

English translation:

broken homes

Added to glossary by Barbara Cochran, MFA
Jul 28, 2020 05:59
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Spanish term

familia en ruptura conyugal

Spanish to English Social Sciences Psychology
I'm translating a study on health-related quality of life in children from families where the parents are divorced/separated. I'm having unreasonable trouble with this term, partly because most of the studies cited in the article are in Spanish, so are of no help. The term "ruptura conyugal" comes up about 100 times, often as "familia en ". The two groups in the study are children from families in "ruptura conyugal" and "no ruptura conyugal". "Broken families" seems to be a little outdated and possibly loaded with other connotations, and "families where the parents are divorced or spearated" is simply unwieldy. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Here are a couple of examples:

La relación familiar impacta en el desarrollo del autoconcepto, especialmente durante la edad infantil y algunos autores han evidenciado que los hijos de familias en ruptura conyugal muestran un autoconcepto deficiente

se observó que los niños procedentes de familias en ruptura conyugal obtuvieron puntuaciones más bajas en todas las dimensiones de la CV, frente a los niños procedentes de familias intactas
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Aug 11, 2020 12:34: Barbara Cochran, MFA Created KOG entry

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Discussion

Michele Fauble Jul 28, 2020:
Agree with Phil and Neil. Choose best translation in context for each occurrence.
neilmac Jul 28, 2020:
Ditto What phil said. Broken homes, families in the process of breaking up/having already broken up... marital breakdown… etc. There are plenty of choices available.
Tigranuhi Khachatryan Jul 28, 2020:
Family involved in a marriage (marital) breakdown
peter jackson (asker) Jul 28, 2020:
I am aware, obviously, that the direct translation is "marital breakdown" Or "marriage break-up" or whatever but it doesnt fit with "familias en", hence my question. The author had written the title in English using "marraige breakdown famileis", which is clearly not English.
Brent Sørensen Jul 28, 2020:
To back up the suggestion of Tigranuhi Khachatryan https://books.google.dk/books?id=YoAOBQAAQBAJ&pg=PT70&dq="ru...
Tigranuhi Khachatryan Jul 28, 2020:
Marital breakdown
philgoddard Jul 28, 2020:
There are lots of possibilities If it comes up 100 times, you should find different ways of saying it rather than looking for a one-size-fits-all answer.

Proposed translations

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broken homes

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Peer comment(s):

agree YESHWANT UMRALKAR
1 hr
Thanks, Yeshwant.
agree Adrian MM. : families from... www.proz.com/personal-glossaries/entry/10645300-ruptura-bre...
4 hrs
Thanks, Adrian.
agree patinba
5 hrs
Thank you, patinba.
agree AllegroTrans
3 days 5 hrs
Thanks.
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families with marital conflict


From the article:
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&c...
Thus, it is reasonable to hypothesize that marital dissolution when combined with post-divorce coparenting cooperation may better protect against deleterious adolescent outcomes associated with marital conflict compared to coparenting cooperation within intact families with marital conflict.

The opposite would be:
families with no marital conflict
families without marital conflict
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2 hrs

Family involved in a marriage (marital) breakdown

I think that "en" preposition in Spanish should be translated as "involved"
Example sentence:

We had very little family law, there were few specialist practitioners, the judiciary by and large was unready and there was little general awareness of the complexity and subtlety of many of the issues involved in marriage breakdown.

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+1
4 hrs

family/families going through a martial breakdown

Search Results
Web results

How separation and divorce impacts on children in Ireland ...www.orpenfranks.ie › why-relationship-breakdown-is-...
The figures for children in lone parent families are steadily increasing year on ... and families who are going through the process of a relationship breakdown.

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or

families experiencing a marital breakdown
Peer comment(s):

agree Elisenda Palau
6 hrs
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1 day 14 hrs

family in dissolution

'Family relationships impact on the development of one's concept on oneself, especially during childhood. Some authors have proven that children from broken homes show some self-concept deficiency. It was found that children from families in dissolution gained lower success and achievements in all parts of their CVs when faced with others coming from stable homes and families.'
Peer comment(s):

neutral AllegroTrans : Right idea but I don't think 'dissolution' is a term used in this context. Have you consiedered the other answers?
3 days 20 hrs
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