The Effects Of Divorce

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Term Paper Title	The Effects Of Divorce
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The Effects of Divorce

The Effects of Divorce

     Divorce in our society has become increasingly common.  Fifty percent of
all marriages will end in divorce and each year 2 million children are newly
introduced to their parents separation, (Monthly Vital Statistics Report ).
Demographers predict that by the beginning of the next decade the majority of
the youngsters under 18 will spend part of their childhood in single-parent
families, many created by divorce.  During this confusing period of turmoil and
high emotional intensity, the child must attempt to understand a complex series
of events, to restructure numerous assumptions and expectations about themselves
and their world.  He or she may be uprooted to a new school, city or
neighborhood leaving their familiar social ties behind.  They must often assume
new household duties, possibly feel the financial loss and most importantly
receive less support and nurturing from their parents.  These are just a few
implications of divorce but demonstrates how it changes the lives of children.
     Each child is unique, so the short and long term functioning of the
children after divorce varies widely. Wallerstein and Kelly (1980) observed and
interviewed parents and children three times in five years, and reported an
estimate of one third of the children come out of divorce unharmed.  Another one
third function adequately, but experience difficulties, and the remaining one
third have severe upsets in their developmental process.  However the authors of
the "Family in Transition", approach this finding with caution because the
conclusions were made without comparing the children of two parent families.
Never the less they do note there are overall trends in the functioning of
children after divorce.  The areas most often discussed are intellectual
performance, juvenile delinquency and aggression, social and emotional well-
being and cognition and perception,
(A & J Skolnick p. 349).
     Most research shows that boys are more vulnerable than girls to divorce
related stress and recover more slowly.  A. and J. Skolnick offer the
possibility that living with the opposite sex is more difficult than with the
same sex and because the custodial parent is often the mother, boys are exposed
to this situation more often.  Another perspective is that girls are likely to
be just as troubled by divorce as boys are, but demonstrate their feelings in a
manner that is more appropriate to their sex role, namely by being anxious,
withdraw...

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