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Children Who Divorce their Parents, 2006.
This paper argues that children have the right to divorce their parents.
1,940 words (approx. 7.8 pages), 7 sources, APA, $ 61.95
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This paper explains that getting a divorce from one's parents is an extension of the principle that children are legally competent to identify their own best interests in major decisions such as issues regarding education, abortion and foster care. The author points out that the child should have to show proof that he or she has tried counseling and available services for reconciliation and resolving the conflict before seeking a divorce. The paper argues that the child's basic rights take precedence over competing claims and considerations, are self-authenticating and are not based on duties: Parents do not have a fundamental right to determine the course of their child's life.
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"The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child was ratified by every country except the United States and Somalia. The U.S. and Somalia refused because they though it was too radical and that the Convention was hostile to the rights of parents. Canada, however, did sign in 1990 and then undertook at all levels of government to abide by its entitlements. Critics point out, and it's true, that the Convention subverts absolute parental authority over their children. Opponents cry it will lead to child anarchy, but the idea that parents own their children has eroded in recent years, and the Convention found it to be paternalistic."
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Children of Divorce, 2002.
This paper discusses the effect of divorce has on children.
1,237 words (approx. 4.9 pages), 3 sources, APA, $ 42.95
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This paper uses three articles, ?Parental Divorce and the Well Being of Children: A Meta Analysis? (Amato & Keith, 1991), ?Children?s Adjustment to Divorce (Amato, 1993), and ?Effects of family Structure, Family SES, and Adulthood Experiences on Life Satisfaction (Louis & Zhao, 2002) to demonstrate the effect of divorce on children, from their adjustment to the divorce, to their well-being after the divorce, to the effects that divorce have on the children of divorce when they are grown.
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"The first article, ?Parental Divorce and the Well Being of Children: A Meta Analysis(Amato and Keith, 1991). s the name of the study indicates, the Meta analysis involved 92 studies. These studies, according to the article, ?compared children living in divorced single-parent families with children living in continuously intact families on measures of well being.? In this study, the Independent variable was whether or not the child?s parents were divorced or not, and the child?s well being was the dependent variable. The study wanted to look at whether or not the well-being of children suffers as a result of divorce. Therefore, the null hypothesis of this study was, ?If children do not suffer, in terms of well being, from the divorce of their parents, then there will be no difference between the well being scores of children with married parents and the scores of children with divorced parents? (Amato & Keith, 1991)."
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The Children of Divorce, 2001.
This paper looks at Judith Harris' book, "The Nurture Assumption," which deals with the affects of divorce on children.
890 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 4 sources, MLA, $ 31.95
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The author challenges the thesis presented by Judith Harris, in her book "The Nurture Assumption," that divorce does not have a long-term affect on children. The author first reviews Ms. Harris' book, and then, using research by other people in the field, such as Judith Wallerstein, refutes her theories on children and divorce. Some of the topics discussed include the parent-child relationship, family structure, economic affects of divorce and single-parent families.
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"Harris holds the view that living in a nice neighborhood the children of single parents do as much better as other kids. Children of single parents are no more likely to drop out of school or get pregnant than the children of two-parent households, she writes, as long as they stay in the same middle-class neighborhoods. Wallerstein and her co-authors do not agree. The authors write: "Although many people no longer believe the myth that children always benefit from a divorce that makes parents happier, it continues to exert subtle, unconscious influences on how we think about divorce and our reactions to it. It has encouraged parents to expect that their children will approve their decision." According to the authors this attitude makes it easy for divorced parents to concentrate of their search for new lovers and jobs devoting less time to their children and not properly preparing them for the effects of divorce. The children pay the price."
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Children, Divorce and Academic Achievement, 2006.
An analysis of the effect of divorce on a child's academic performance.
1,996 words (approx. 8.0 pages), 10 sources, MLA, $ 63.95
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Each year two million children experience the turmoil and emotional intensity of their parents' divorce and struggle to make sense of complex events. They will be forced to adapt to new environments and to less nurturing and attention from their parents. The number of children affected by divorce has more than tripled since 1960. Rates of divorce and remarriage (and in half of remarriages, another divorce) have soared in the United States, and the odds in the U.S. are about 50% now that a divorce will occur in a household before the children have grown up. How children function academically after the divorce is the focus of this essay.
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"Nearly always, the parents who are getting the divorce have less time and emotional capacity for parenting their children. They are involved in their own emotional crisis. For some children this becomes permanent. They have to grow up fast and help hold things together at home. They lose their childhood. As Sun and Li (2002) point out, "divorce had serious negative consequences on the psychological well being of children both before and after the divorce and... these negative effects could not be attributed to the pre-divorce conditions within the family" (cited in Children of Divorce web site)."
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Children and Divorce, 2002.
This paper examines the psychological and emotional effects of divorce on children.
4,400 words (approx. 17.6 pages), 9 sources, $ 160.95
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This paper discusses a number of important studies, especially Judith Wallerstein's, and evaluates the information gathered from research on this issue.
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Children and Divorce, 2008.
This paper classifies the various children's age groups and their emotional dispositions in relation to marital divorce.
861 words (approx. 3.4 pages), 3 sources, APA, $ 30.95
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The paper looks at preschool years (3/5), elementary school years (6-11) and early-late adolescent years (11-18 years) and their different reactions and emotive responses to marital divorce in modern society. The paper shows how younger children do not often conceptualize the problem of marriage and often blame themselves. The paper then explains how elementary school children and adolescents become more reliant on peer groups and social institutions outside of the family, which provides a deeper understanding of the divorce.
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"The early and late adolescent period is often part of the successive ways in which youth become able to completely and objectively interpret the divorce. The reliance on internal thinking has now become less abstracted, and the divorce can be seen with greater clarity. For the youth, the greater social networks through peer relationships has widened, marking a change in how the divorce is perceived. Often, the more independent nature of the youth's perspective can create more discourse about the divorce, which changes the way that parents must communicate with their children. Modern research studies often describe this form of 'individuation' that arises through the adolescent's ability to find other sources of social interaction other than the family unit."
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Children of Divorced Parents, 2005.
This paper provides a study on the risks in children of divorced parents.
900 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 2 sources, $ 35.95
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In this paper, a journal study is compared to a popular review of the research that it covers. The writer notes that the popular review, from Prevention Magazine Online, is a brief overview and embellishes the results of the in-depth study on intervention and skill-building in at-risk families after divorce. Further, the writer points out that the journal study used was "Risk as a Moderator of the Effects of Prevention Programs for Children from Divorced Families".
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In "Risk Moderation of the Effects of Prevention Programs for Children from Divorced Families: A Six-Year Longitudinal Study," Dawson-McClure, Sandler, Wolchik, and Millsap conduct a study of 218 families over 6 years to identify the effects of prevention programs in preventing mental health problems in children from divorced homes. In these studies, the researchers used resilience-building prevention methods, such as effective parenting training, to directly combat the stress and negative experiences that often lead to mental anguish in children."
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Divorce and Children, 2004.
This paper reviews various studies about the effect of divorce on children.
2,020 words (approx. 8.1 pages), 7 sources, APA, $ 63.95
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This paper reviews a longitudinal study conducted by Pennsylvania State University, which reveals that the effects of divorce on children depend on the parents? marriage. Children of couples who fight a lot tend to fare better psychologically and socially after divorce than do the children of couples whose marriages show few outward signs of stress. The author points out that a new book, "The Unexpected Legacy of Divorce,'' by psychologist Judith Wallerstein, based on a recent study, argues that emotional complications are common among adult children of divorced parents, although many of these complications may not be fully evident until decades after the breakup. The paper cites a recent report by Kather and Rembar at Children?s Psychiatric Hospital, University of Michigan, that a father lost through divorce is associated with diminished self-concepts in children and that one of the most devastating affects on a child is fear of abandonment by the remaining parent.
Table of Contents
Parent?s Marriage, Child Post-Divorce
Implications for a Child?s Future
View of Children in a Divorcing Family
A Summary of Effects
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"On the positive side, the researchers found that the adult children of divorced parents have strong survival instincts. The same experiences that hindered relationships were effective in the workplace. The study participants had a good deal of success getting along with difficult people, and those who had mothers who often said one thing and fathers who said another became adept at making up their own minds.
The study also compared the adults from divorced families to 44 adults from intact families. Children of intact marriages took strength from their parents' decision to stay together, the researchers found, even though the marriage may have had conflict and unhappiness similar to those of families that broke up."
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The Effect of Divorce on Children, 1999.
A look at the psychological effects of divorce on children.
1,550 words (approx. 6.2 pages), 3 sources, $ 50.95
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This paper takes a look at how children are affected by divorce. The paper attempts to explain what it is exactly about divorce that causes negative consequences for children, how divorce affects children and if these effects are demonstrated outwardly.
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The Impact of Divorce on Children, 2005.
A look at the impact that divorce has on children.
1,265 words (approx. 5.1 pages), 8 sources, MLA, $ 42.95
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This paper critiques an article "Children of Divorce" from the "Journal of the American Board of Family Practice" by Charles L. Bryner, Jr, MD. It uses the case study of a child named Lamar, as well as offering a critique of the methods and research materials used in the article.
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Introduction
Methods
Stages of Divorce
Consequences on Divorce
Children's Responses to Divorce
Treatments and Inventions
Support
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"Children go through so much when their parents are divorcing. The parents are busy themselves trying to make new lives for themselves, adjusting their life styles, and dealing with their own problems. Meanwhile, the child is lonely and confused. Normally, family and friends tend to pull back when, during this time, the children need them the most."
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Divorce and Children, 2005.
A discussion of the impact of divorce on children.
1,754 words (approx. 7.0 pages), 5 sources, MLA, $ 56.95
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Divorce can have a devastating impact on a family. Children are particularly vulnerable when their parents are divorced. For many years, experts in the field of child psychology have investigated the impact of divorce on children. They have found that children of divorce can have a plethora of problems, including behavioral, emotional, and adjustment difficulties. This paper explores the impact of divorce on children.
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"According to current data, nearly 51% of all marriages in the United States ends in divorce (Love and Murdock 2004). In addition, the divorce rate began to climb in the 1960's. Many factors may have contributed to this increase including a greater independence felt by women and the ability they had to support themselves (Love and Murdock 2004). Along with these factors is the increase in the number of stepfamilies because many who remarry already have children (Love and Murdock 2004). The introduction of the stepfamily into a divorced situation can lead to even greater problems for children of divorce (Love and Murdock 2004)."
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Does Divorce Effect Children?, 2005.
A look at the negative effects of divorce on children.
1,300 words (approx. 5.2 pages), 7 sources, MLA, $ 43.95
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This paper cites numerous studies and research about the negative effects that divorce has on children and looks at how lasting these effects are. The paper also points out that these studies indicate that the damaging effects from divorce do not have to be lasting and that, often, children of divorced parents grow up to be more resourceful and resilient as a result of the divorce and the pain they suffered going through the divorce process.
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"There is something unnatural about divorce, yet often necessary at the same time. Unfortunately, divorce has become commonplace in today?s society. Most families have been affected by divorce, whether by parents, uncles, aunts, sisters, brothers, or cousins. The majority of people have at least one family member who has had a divorce, and unless that family member was some distant cousin seen once a decade or so, that divorce had an effect on every other family member. For example, Aunt Susie and Uncle Fred have divorced, so after seventeen years, Aunt Susie will no longer be celebrating Christmas or vacationing with Uncle Fred's relatives, and vise versa, thus two entire families are affected as bonds are severed between family members. As difficult as it might be to adjust to Christmas without Aunt Susie as one big happy family, for children of divorced parents, adjusting to losing the unity of both parents can be overwhelming."
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Divorce and Children, 2002.
An examination of various studies which discuss the effect of divorce on children.
2,010 words (approx. 8.0 pages), 12 sources, MLA, $ 63.95
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This paper discusses the various ways in which children are affected by divorce - first, they are impacted by the change in income; second, a large number suffer from a lessening of ties with their fathers; third, children suffer a loss in residential stability because they often have to move out of their house and/or a new town. The research shows that the question is no longer whether divorce can be a strain on children, but rather how much of a strain.
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"Judith Wallerstein, a premier researcher in this field, notes that one of the key concerns of this generation should be the sociological and psychological effect that divorce has had and will continue to have on children. In The Unexpected Legacy of Divorce, she indicates that children from divorced parents are still experiencing negative effects even 30 years later. The book shows how these products of divorce have struggled with the fear that their relationships will fail like those of their parents. Lacking an internal template of what a successful relationship looks like, they have had to invent their own codes of behavior in a culture that offers many models and few guidelines."
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