Running Head: Divorce: The Effect On The Children

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Term Paper Title	Running Head: Divorce: The Effect On The Children
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Running head:  Divorce:   The Effect on the Children

Divorce:  The Effect on the Children

Divorce:  The Effect on the Children
     Divorce, once uncommon in our society, is now becoming more and more frequent, disrupting our  children’s state of well-being.  Some children of divorced families have long-term behavior problems such as depression, low self-esteem, poor school performance, acting out, and difficulties with intimate relationships.  Children with divorced or divorcing parents often have a sense of abandonment, because their parents become too preoccupied with their own psychological, social, and economic distress that they forget about their kids’ needs (Lamb and Sternberg, 1997).  In 1988, Professor Jeanne Dise-Lewis conducted a survey of 700 middle school students.  The students were asked to rate certain events as to the stress they causes.  The death of a parent or close family member was the only thing that outranked divorce (Zinsmeister, 1996).  A divorce in the family creates a major life change for most children.  Loss of contact with friends, schoolmates, neighbors, teachers, and sometimes moving to a new location may bring a lot of psychosocial stress upon the children, and that stress can be very harmful.
     Since the divorce boom started in the 1960’s, father-mother divorces have increased at an alarming rate.  Today more than 1,000,000 kids experience a divorce in the family every year in the United States alone (U.S.A. Today, p. 8).  As a result of the divorce, many children live in single-parent homes.  This usually results in a drop in income for the family.  Remarriage creates step families.  Children often have a hard time adjusting to this new situation.  Many of the remarriages end in divorce.  As children see these marriages end, they may become more likely to accept divorce as they enter marriage. It seems  that the old saying, “staying together for the sake of the kids” is becoming a fairy tale.
Parental Actions:  Custodial and Nonresidential
     Children’s behavior, development, and adjustment to divorce is affected closely by the actions of  both of their parents.  In a typical divorce situation, one parent has custody of the children and the other is considered to be  the  nonresidential parent.  Children whose nonresidential parents continue to support them financially, whose custodial parents are psychologically healthy, and those who can maintain a meaningful relationship with the nonresidential parent tend to...

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