Written by Elizabeth Marquart talks about how divorce can cause children even from a good divorce go through it there selves when they get older, children also feel that they are to blame for their parents getting divorced and they lose all interest for other things, there is also a lot of controversy about which parent gets which day can just lead up to a huge custody battle for most. Divorce isn’t the best thing when you are a child it can
Margaret E. Sangster has pointed out all the possible problems that are usually faced by the children of divorce parents. According to her children face problem generally during his or her school life and more likely to have legal problems. As everyone knows that, children or even adult when distress among themselves affects child’s mind or adult, so he or she see all those conflicts among their own parents ,so they are also merely looking for
The Affects of Divorce Among Black College Students Divorce is the legal and final dissolution of a marriage. There are a variety of reasons why people make the decision to divorce. Therapists mention problems with couples growing apart, feeling unloved and unappreciated, and troubles with finances as the top reasons for divorce. Divorce is something that affects most Americans directly or indirectly. Children are affected by the divorce more if the parents have custody hearings or move away from each other.
The purpose of this paper is to critique Zinsmeister’s article, and explore its potential flaws and strengths. Summary In this article, Zinsmeister argues that parent’s divorce causes permanent damage to children that affects them the rest of their lives. He claims that divorce “has lasting significance on [children’s] later views of love, families, and life” (Zinsmeister 158). He outlines the ways in which divorce negatively affects children’s schooling, social interactions, mental health and even sexual identity and later marriages. He also claims that an unhappy household due to continued parental conflict causes less damage to children than divorce does, and thus preserving the marriage solely for the sake of the children is the best option.
There are a lot of emotions that everyone goes through, and it is different for all sorts of people. It is most important for teens to realize that they are not the ones to blame for their parents mistakes, and to make the best out of the situation they are forced to be a part of. All kids who’s parents go through divorce are effected by it, no matter what, sometime it is in a good way or a bad, but either way their lives are changed forever. A teenager’s biggest influence comes from their parents, because they are the people who have always been around to set an example of how they should live their lives. When parents get a divorce, their children are affected in many ways.
Child Custody The biggest question that divorcing parents face is who is going to retain custody of the children after the divorce and what role will the other parent play and to what extent. Most parents stress about the outcome of the child and how the divorce will also affect the child. Prior to the 1970’s most mothers were awarded majority of the custody, in the 1970’s research began to show that it was more beneficial for a child to have equal time with both parents, if they are both “fit and loving” (Demo & Fine, 2010, p.66). Although laws have changed to provide father’s more time and access to their child/ children research does show that although some divorced noncustodial fathers become closer to their children after the divorce, the majority greatly reduce their involvement with their children (Bokker, 2006). This is more harmful to the child’s wellbeing on many different levels.
Single mothers and fathers have a hard time raising one child let alone two or three but yet they keep on having child after child. Society’s views on a few things need to change to be able to get the foster care system under control because if families could take care of the kids they had then there would be no problems. I understand there are special circumstances but the number of children in the system is outrageous. I feel like what has led my client to be put into the foster care system is his or her own parents neglect. This could be neglect of just the child or neglect of substances or responsibilities whatever it is they didn’t step up to the plate like they should have when they had they kid and therefore the government did and
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.
How do we look for that "something else"? We know that it is a mistake to compare children of divorced parents with children of continuously-married parents without taking into account differences between divorcing families and continuously married families PRIOR to the marital disruption. Parents who are more likely to divorce may also be more likely to be impoverished, to live in disadvantaged neighborhoods, to be less educated, to have been raised in divorced families themselves, or to have more children than average. These factors may impair a child's well-being whether the parents stay together or not, but also be more likely to produce a marital disruption. To test the effect of pre-existing family characteristics versus the effect of divorce itself, prior studies have used statistical analysis to "control" for the differences we can see between divorced and continuously-married families prior to the disruption.
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,