...The Impact of Divorce on Children Jennifer Maples Liberty University Abstract When parents reject each other by divorce that eventually ends in totally separate lives for the father and the mother, the strengths of their children are not as developed as they could be, and ore weaknesses occur in major outcomes such as derivations, addictions, abuse and failure. When fathers and mothers belong to each other in marriage their children thrive, when they are indifferent or walk away from each other or reject each other, their children do not thrive as much, and many wilt a lot. The children of parents who reject each other suffer: in deep emotional pain, ill health, depression, anxiety, even shortened life span; more drop out of school, less go to college, they earn less income, they develop more addictions to drugs and alcohol, and they engage in increased violence or suffer it within their homes. Society also suffers with more gangs, more assaults, more violence against women and children, more sexual abuse of women and children, and much bigger bills for jails, increased need for health care supplemental education, addiction programs, foster care, homelessness programs, and on and on. The expansion of all these social program budgets is directly linked to the breakdown of marriage. When mothers and fathers belong to each other and strive to belong to God in worship the greatest strengths emerge and the least problems are present. All Children are affected by divorce...
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...The effects of divorce on children and adults Name: Institution: God as a parent: I agree with this notion. God displays parental roles in various ways. God cares for people. Even though this is preeminently demonstrated in the incarnation, death and resurrection of Christ numerous other biblical passages highlight the caring nature of God (Luke: 11-32). God is responsive to the human needs this can be observed in the convent which was established after the flood (Gen.9:8-17), in the rescue of Israel from Egypt, and in the free offer of restoration and mercy (John3:16). God bestows the richness on us-the only begotten son and the Holy Spirit as comforter. God shows respect for, values and cherishes us; there is not attempt to dominate, and individuals are given the freedom of being themselves. God knows human populaces, for Jesus came in human likeness; this knowledge penetrates to the core of individual’s existence. God forgives as is evident n Mathew 26:28, and John3:16. God disciplines the human populaces (Prov, 3:11-12, Revelation, 3:19) (Balswick & Judith, 2007). The discipline of Israel can be observed as an attempt of creating a faithful and obedient people. The bible taken as a whole focuses on the love and grace of God that he freely gives. Nonetheless, this unconditional love is not free of expectations and demands. God’s love entail disciplinary actions for the individuals own rectitude; His love as a parent bears a striking similarity to the parenting style...
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...Abstract – This study reviews several empirical researchers which highlight relationship between father involvement and divorced father’s psychological well-being. According to Ryff (1989) psychological well-being is active engagement in a number of existential challenges. The father not successful in marriage or divorced was not achieved Erikson’s generativity which they were unsatisfied and not well-being. However, the positive relationship between father’s senses of competence involvement in child-related activities was stronger for divorced fathers. Research consistently shows that positive father involvement provides important benefits to children. Father involvement is negatively associated with divorced father’s psychological wellbeing...
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...students in United States came from divorced families. Divorce was never, and never will be a straightforward process nor is it easy. Divorce involves six stages; emotional, legal, economic, co-parental, community and psychic (Matthews, n.d.). Parental divorce certainly gives numerous effects to children, but among those implications, (Matthews, n.d.) described that the long-term effects of divorce is more hazardous than short-term effects. Therefore, short-term effects are considered as temporary and less significant to be included in the scope of discussion. The range of age of individuals affected with parental...
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...was 3.6 per 1,000 total populations. (Marriage and Divorce) The rate that people are getting divorced is an increasing number by weeks to months to years. The little to no thought that gets put into people getting married, but do not realize the negative outcomes divorce has on a single person. “20 to 25 percent of children do show signs that they are not dealing well with this change in the relationship between their mothers and fathers, and some of the problems they develop may continue into adult life.” (Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services) Divorce for children can be a confusing and sensitive topic to live through or talk about, it can be frightening, life changing, and unpredictable. Divorce has a negative affect on children they drop out of school, abuse substances, behave in sexual acts, relationships with their parents decline, and social classes might be affected. The first divorce in America was on January 5, 1643. “In the first record of a legal divorce in the American colonies, Anne Clarke of the Massachusetts Bay Colony is granted a divorce from her absent and adulterous husband, Denis Clarke, by the Quarter Court of Boston, Massachusetts. In a signed and sealed affidavit presented to John Winthrop Jr., the son of the colony's founder, Denis Clarke admitted to abandoning his wife, with whom he had two children, for another woman, with whom he had another two children. He also stated his refusal to return to his original wife, thus giving the Puritan courts...
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...are Philippiness and the Vatican city, these countries have no procedure for divorce. The types of divorce: contested divorce,at-fault divorce, summarydivorce, no-faultdivorce, uncontested divorce, collaborative divorce, mediated divorce. The divorce of parents is associated with weak emotional bonds between children in adult hood and parents.(Zill, Morrison, Coiro, 1993 ). In addition, after divorce, a set of the intense circumstances (economic difficulty, living in poor areas, lack of social support) can destroy quality of interaction of mother child.(Amato and Booth,...
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...What is the Psychological Effect on Children during a Divorce? John Simpson Professor Patricia Dzandu Introduction to Psychology June 5th, 2011 Abstract In today's society, half of all marriages end in divorce. Many of those marriages involve children. Parents who are involved in a divorce are often concerned about the psychological effect on their children. During the time of a divorce the parents may be preoccupied with the ongoing problems that are involved but they still hold their roles as the most important people in their children’s lives. While a divorce may be devastating or relieving to a couple, children can become confused and scared by the threat to their security. But if a child feels loved and secured throughout the divorce, he or she may not be harmed during the divorce proceedings. Reflecting on these concerns, this paper aims to determine the psychological effects on children during a divorce. What is the Psychological Effect on Children during a Divorce? The definition of divorce, as explained by Merriam-Webster Dictionary “is the action or an instance of legally dissolving a marriage”. But there is more to that word than the simple definition? Divorce affects more than just the couple involved. There are more consequences than just the legal dissolving of a marriage. Even the metaphorical definition, ‘dissolving’, brings to mind harmful effects. Things that dissolve tend to harm others around it. Acid burns when it contacts the human skin...
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...Parents Harm Their Children? Each year the American society deals with divorce. Divorce introduces a massive change into children and adults life no matter what the age is. Divorce can be harmful to children if the parents continue to fight and argue and can never get along. Children can be made out to believe that the divorce between their parents was their fault or that they aren’t loved anymore. However, children can come out strong in divorce as long as their parents can be co-parents without conflict. Divorce in America now is more common than it was back in the 1960’s and 70’s. Many couples got divorced due to infidelity and abuse. Now, in this day and age, men and women get divorced due to their own personal happiness. Professor Tamara D. Afifi spoke on a TEDxTalk in 2012 and said that many children from families who divorced and fight have more trust issues and hurt more on the inside than from children whose parents get along and co-parent without conflict. (Afifi, 2012) Each year, over 1 million American children suffer the divorce of their parents; Half of American children born this year will witness divorce with their parents. Of that 50% another 50% will experience a second divorce. (Rector & Fagan, 2000) Many believe that divorce has a negative effect on children. Not only does it cause them to have trust issues and often have relationship difficulties later in life, but they tend to dwell on the divorce as their fault. Children of divorced parents perform more...
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...Speech on Divorced Families BSHS 371 July 10, 2013 Reina Menashe Speech on Divorced Families In the five minutes that I have the pleasure to speak with you every 13 seconds of those five minutes a divorce will occur. At the end of today there will be a total of 6,646 divorces and in one week there will be a total of 46, 523 divorces (Portnoy, 2008). I am here today to be the voice of the children whose parents are divorced and transform the children’s lives but I cannot do this alone and I will need your help. Today we will be discussing the issues, obstacles, strengths of children whose parents got divorced, challenges, and concerns. The issues and obstacles are simple 50 percentof all marriages end in divorce and 40 percent of those divorces are people with children. 90 percent of families with children who are autistic get divorced, and 22 percent of parents with ADHD will divorce by the time the child is eight (Ellison, Glenn, Marquardt, & Zhai, 2007). If these statistics are not alarming enough take the time to reflect on your experience with divorce. Whether it was your parents’ divorce, your friends divorce, your boyfriends or husbands divorce or your divorce how did it affect you or your loved one? What actions did you or loved one take to try to understand the divorce? Did you or your loved one act out in school, feel depressed, blamed yourself for the divorce or perhaps did you or your loved one lose his or her sense of belonging? The issues and obstacles...
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...for Children Linda G. Chelette Riverside City College Ear 20 Tuesday (6:00pm-9:10pm) Tanya Gonzalez September 30, 2014 Research has shown effects on divorce for children have many pros and cons. Some cons are psychological problems, anxiety, lower self-esteem, and depression. Academic performance is also an aspect that affects a child as well as having a healthy relationship. Children from divorced parents also develop conduct problems as well as conflict in sexual activity. Pros would be controlling hostile conflict, improving child and parent relationship as well as improving the quality of parenting. Many experts may agree to disagree on the effects of divorce for children. Studies have shown children with divorce parents have higher anxiety, depression, and low self-esteem. This effect’s more females with divorced parents compared to females with intact families. As for male’s it affects them in different ways they become hopeless and discouraged. The depression carries on to adulthood effecting children with low self-esteem, this effect’s personal relationships with friendship as well as the opposite sex. (Portnoy, 2008) Academic performance also affects children with divorced parents; lower test scores will also exhibit lower educational aspirations. Children are likely to drop out of school and achieve lower levels of education. Which eventually effects lower adult occupational status in the long run can lead to school dropouts. Children of divorced parents...
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...Wallerstein, PhD Judith Wallerstein Center for the Family in Transition and University of California, Berkeley Julia M. Lewis, PhD San Francisco State University This follow-up study of 131 children, who were 3–18 years old when their parents divorced in the early 1970s, marks the culmination of 25 years of research. The use of extensive clinical interviews allowed for exploration in great depth of their thoughts, feelings, and behaviors as they negotiated childhood, adolescence, young adulthood, and adulthood. At the 25-year follow-up, a comparison group of their peers from the same community was added. Described in rich clinical detail, the findings highlight the unexpected gulf between growing up in intact versus divorced families, and the difficulties children of divorce encounter in achieving love, sexual intimacy, and commitment to marriage and parenthood. These findings have significant implications for new clinical and educational interventions. The study we report here begins with the first no-fault divorce legislation in the nation and tracks a group of 131 California children whose parents divorced in the early 1970s. They were seen at regular intervals over the 25-year span that followed. When we first met our young participants, they were between ages 3 and 18; by the mid- to late 1990s, when our study ended, they were 28–43 years old. They were the vanguard of an army of adults raised in divorced families who made up one quarter of the American population...
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...divorce, it has shown some results on the cause, effects and the advantages and disadvantages of divorce. From the study of the divorce rate in the world the top ten most divorced countries are 1) Belgium (71%) 2) Portugal (68%) 3) Hungary (67%) 4) Czech Republic (66%) 5) Spain (61%) 6) Luxembourg (60%) 7) Estonia (58%) 8) Cuba (56%) 9) France (55%) and 10) USA (53%). The lowest divorced rate is in Chile with an average of 4% divorce rate. These are the divorced average rate in European countries where love marriages are in practice but with the study of data the rate of divorce in arrange marriage is found significantly low than love marriages, with an average of 4% divorce rate. This data is almost similar to the lowest rate of divorce in the world (i.e. Chile). Nowadays most of the nation has legalized the divorce. Some of the countries with declared law for divorce and the date for their legalization are; US- 1701 (Maryland State) – 1949-50 (South Carolina State) – 1970 (Alabama State), Spain- 1981, Soviet Union- 1917-1926, Scotland- 1976, Scandinavia-1909-1929, Prussia -1794, Ireland- 1997, German States- 1875, France- 1792 and then later made illegal in 1816 and again legalized in 1884, China- 1980, Chile- 2004, Canada- 1960, Brazil- 1978 etc.. ( http://www.therichest.com/rich-list/world/worlds-10-most-divorced-nations/ and http://molly.kalafut.org/marriage/divorce.html) From the above data, it is clear that divorce rate in US is one of the highest in the world. About 53%...
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...“Harry Potter and Divorce among the Muggles,” newly divorced mother of three Constance Matthiessen relays the emotional struggle that a single parent experiences after a divorce (186). Her struggles at handling the consequences of her divorce, bring to light just how much a divorce can affect the family when it occurs and reinforces the need for some basic ways to relieve the stress of the situation. During the divorce process, it is imperative that parents allow their children to experience the emotions associated with the event freely without shame as well as encouraging communication amongst the family and making decisions based upon what is best for all those involved. When a parent allows their children to express their emotions without fear of being judged or shamed, the parent-child bond is strengthened. A 2011 study published in the Journal of Child and Family Studies found that parents who listened and encouraged discussion, especially in times of extreme emotional conflict, were more likely to develop stronger bonds with their children, which allowed the children to feel supported and accepted. In addition, parents who chose instead to dismiss their children’s emotions instead of providing support, missed out on the opportunity to better understand their children (409). While parents may worry about how angry or upset their children may act during the divorce process, stifling the emotion could cause the children to feel unheard or neglected and discourage them from...
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...The Effects Of Divorce On Children Mohamet Thiam Western Governors University WGU Student ID# 000204437 The Effects Of divorce On Children The society in general has a better view of divorce now days. According to Jolivet in one of her recent articles in 2011, if you compare the view of society about divorce in the 1950s when women who divorced were stigmatized and today when half of the marriage end in divorce, the view of society about divorce has truly evolved. The rapid societal changes and economic development have contributed to the rise of women at almost the same level as men for professional occupations and to a higher social status with growing women’s rights. The National Center for Health Statistics has estimated in 2011 that between 850,000 and 950,000 couples divorces every year and more than half of divorcing couples have at least one children. In light of the alarming number of children involved in divorce, many studies have been conducted to shed some light on the possible effects on children. In the United States in particular, there are thousands of studies related to the many impacts of divorce on children well being. Research has shown that divorce can have a tremendous impact on children because it can be source of emotional distress especially in the early years, psychological problems, and socialization difficulties. The purpose of the research paper is to synthesize and analyze the well-supported studies conducted by knowledgeable authors...
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...PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION ACADEMIC YEAR: 2014-2015 ANALYSING IMPACT OF DIVORCE ON FAMILY SOCIAL WELFARE IN RWANDA Case study: KIYUMBA Sector, MUHANGA District :( 2008-2015). MEMOIRE Presented by: TUYISINGIZE Nazard Tel: 0787848528, E-mail:nazardt@yahoo.com/tunazy0513@gmail.com Supervisor: Mr. John GASASIRA Huye, April 2015 Declaration I, the undersigned TUYISINGIZE Nazard a student of University of Rwanda, College of Arts and Social Sciences, Department of Political Science, option of Public Administration hereby declare that the work presented in this dissertation is my original work and has never been presented anywhere else for any other academic qualifications at any university or institution either in Rwanda or out of country. Student‘s Signature………………………………………………………… Names: ……………………………………………………………………… Date: ………………………………………………………………………… Supervisor’s Signature………………………………………………………… Names: ………………………………………………………………………… Date: …………………………………………………………………………. DEDICATION To my God To my parents To my brothers and sisters To my relatives and friends ACKNOWLEGMENTS First of all, I highly thank God, who helps and protect me in all my activities under to his love and goodness toward me may glory, honor and praise be to him forever and ever. I would like to thank especially my family: parents, brothers, sisters, for their unforgettable mutual support through the...
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