It is estimated that between 2 and 4 children die every week from abuse or neglect and or may suffer long term effects. Also, 25-50% of all children will experience some form of abuse during their
Shashin Patel Mrs. Dauma, Robbin English 12 8 March 2012 Effects of divorce on children Margaret E. Sangster, : Cleveland Journal〉, April 15, 1905, p. 6. Available at Ohio Historical Center. "Why Divorce is Bad." 〈http://dbs.ohiohistory.org/africanam/det.cfm?ID=3769〉 (accessed June 18, 2006). Margaret E. Sangster has pointed out all the possible problems that are usually faced by the children of divorce parents.
The murder of Steven Hoskin (2007) also identifies significant failings in interprofessinals (Flynn 2007). Laming (2009) states that it is not just professionals working in adult services or in children services that should work together but, professionals should work together across children and adult services. Because after all children live in families with adults and difficulties and difficult encountered by one will invariably impact on the other. Laming (2009) reminds us of some striking statistics. It states that in the UK at least 200,000 children live in household where there is a known high risk case of domestic abuse and violence, with very many more affected at some point.
U.S. divorce rates have been rising since the beginning of the 20th century. More than a quarter of people age 18-44 come from a divorced family. Psychologists have known little about the long term effect this has on kids and are just now coming out with useful information. (“BreakupBacklash”) Researcher Sara Hara Estroff Marano(www.psychology.com) found that effects of divorce depend on what happened in the marriage before the divorce occurred. For example, kids that have lots of high conflict in their family are happier after the divorce occurs.
In 1990, when the divorce rate was 4.7, there were 1,182,000 divorces in the United States (Births, Deaths, Marriages, & Divorces, 2006). This is not only affecting the people involved in the marriage, but it affects their families, children, and friends. Even though during my lifetime the divorce rates have been leveling off it is still a big part of our society. There are multiple social factors that led to the rising rates of divorce during the 1960s and 1970s and there are also ways that we can help lower the divorce rate even more by simply educating the teenage generation. In many divorce cases children are involved.
There are basically two results of a divorce for the couple; the divorce is either mutual, or one-sided. However, for a child, divorce is a drastic change and traumatic event to experience; it can produce all kinds of psychological and physical results. Although 50% of marriages do not end in divorce, like many people believe, there are still enough to cause an enormous effect on the younger generations in this country Involvement can alienate a child from one or both parents; the effect of this is detrimental to their development. Psychologists have studied these effects for years; according to Craig A. Everett’s Children of Divorce, “children may exhibit higher levels of dependent, disobedient, aggressive, demanding, unaffectionate and whining behaviors” after a divorce. One of the most harmful effects of divorce on children is the stress that accompanies it.
Personal problems affecting students seem to be the main cause for students to drop out of high school. Children seem to be the main personal problem facing dropout students, especially in women. Close to half of the dropouts students, both male and female, have children or are expecting one. Jobs also increase the percentage of students dropping out of school. Some students may and do have to take on a job to support themselves or their family.
Families face separations of many kinds. It may be between parents and children, husband and wife, children and one of the parents (as in divorces), and other types. I have chosen to focus on the separation between parents and children because I believe it affects a large number of people nowadays. Parent-child separation is definitely an issue today, not that it was not in the past years, but statistics show us that the number of families who have to face this separation grows every year. Why?
UNIVERSITY OF SANTO TOMAS CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION Background of the Study Parental separation is the ending of a marriage before the death of either spouse. In many developed countries, separation rates have increased markedly during the previous century. It is reported that more than 1 million children each year experience their parents’ separation. Divorce or separation is a critical event happening to about 54% of young families; however nobody really is prepared for the difficulties that follow. Parental separation has been reported in the literature as being associated with a wide range of adverse effects on children’s wellbeing, both as a short-term consequence of the transition and in the form of more enduring effects that persist into adulthood.
Negative aspects and attributes of divorce, such as discussions on the parental control, cruel scenes between parents and negligent attitude towards the child, as proven by the empirical research data, influence future behavioral patterns of this child and create dysfunctional attitude and relationships in his or her own family. The statistics shows that twenty one percent of the respondents in one of the research on the functional differences in the families of individuals, brought up by one of the divorced parents,