...Children of Divorce Kirsten Honahan Devry University Children of Divorce Divorce is never a goal when people get married, but in today’s society it has become the norm. Why is it that so many do divorce? I believe the stigma of being divorced is not there anymore, meaning it’s not a bad thing. Divorce being so common now I believe people are in a throw away society, the commonality is too popular. We are in a society now that if something is too hard we just give up and throw it away. Why are people so consumed with themselves and not with others especially when it comes to their children, we are in a selfish society and it is all about me. I understand when abuse is involved and the necessary steps to remove yourself from that situation. I’m focusing on married people who decide to dissolve a marriage whatever the reason besides violence. Being a child of divorce myself the questions I still have are, did you really try hard enough or it must have been easier to give up. Was it that bad that you had to move out of a beautiful home into a rented run down home you could barely afford. Do parents consider the consequences children will experience when they do divorce or do they just think of themselves. Marriage is not easy being in one myself almost twenty five years; having children myself I made it my goal to raise two stable productive people of society. I’m sure that is a goal for every parent, but I put my children first besides my own needs. Nothing...
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...LESSEN THE IMPACT OF DIVORCE Michael Jennings DeVry University Lessen the Impact of Divorce Charlie is 9 years old and lives in a single parent home where the parent works to support the family, where not much time is spent with Charlie, who must figure certain things out on his own. Where does Charlie go after school? If no one is home having Charlie home alone is not a very good option. If siblings or friends are there but, no adult is present during the after school hours, home is still not a very good option. The term “latch-key” kid is one who has their own key to their home and is expected to be home with minimal supervision. Once a child reaches a certain responsible age, being a latch-key kid often makes sense. Charlie must get home safe from school, stay out of trouble, and complete his homework, with little to no adult supervision. After-school activities should be available to Charlie because he may not be responsible enough or his parents may not trust him to be home alone yet. Everyone is affected by the consequences of parental divorce, especially the children involved. In any society, the children are the future. In the United States alone, 40 to 50% of first marriages end in divorce, according to the American Psychological Association. As citizens of the United States, we are all stakeholders of our future and should care about the well-being of all our children, especially those of disadvantaged environments such as parental divorce. Additional resources...
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...Abstract This paper will address issues that may arise when counseling blended families by focusing on the family dynamic system. Blended families or step-families are becoming more prevalent in the United States each year. The number of divorces has continued to rise in the United States, which has caused the rate of couples remarrying to increase as well. Blended families usually result from different life circumstances such, as past relationships, divorces, deaths, and separations. At times blended families are faced with many challenges, and these challenges can cause significant problems within the new relationships. Some of the problems are due to different parenting styles. Children are having to readjust to a new lifestyle and getting along with stepparents or siblings can put an obstacle into the new relationship. Family counseling provides blended families with an opportunity and a platform for voicing their feelings and learning ways to accommodate each other within the family. Keywords: Blended families, counseling, divorce, remarriage, children, separation, parenting style, step-siblings, and widowing. Blended Family Counseling Introduction Blended families are becoming accepted in today’s society, and many families are merging together as one. Gonzales (2009) defined blended family as two couples coming together into a new relationship with one or more children from a previous relationship. Customarily, the primary family structure consisted of a two-parent...
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...individual crises. To be discussed in this paper is a suicide and infidelity crisis. Interventions, and assessments will also be discussed. The Crisis of Suicide Workers who deal with any type of crisis client should always assess for the presence of clues and risk factors for lethal behavior. The...
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...academic performance, low religiosity, a broken family, anxiety, alienation, and maladjustment. (p. 134) This section of the presented review of the literature indicated that there is a clear and direct correlation between adolescent substance abuse and parental divorce with the likelihood being that parental divorce is, at least to some extent, a causative factor in both use and abuse of drugs and alcohol among teens. The next question that needs to be asked regarding these findings is: What are the types and kinds of treatment being given to these youngsters and how effective are these interventions? In an effort to answer this question, the next section of the presented review examines studies related to the treatment of adolescent substance abusers from divorced families. The treatments that have been implemented with adolescent substance abusers are varied. According to Jenson, Howard and Jaffe (1995), the most common of these are: social skills training, family therapy, case management systems, most of which utilize posttreatment support groups to maintain abstinence from substance use. Weidman (1985) has made the point that if the substance abuse is at least in part related to parental divorce, the intervention most likely to help these adolescents is going to be some form of family therapy. As to the efficacy of family therapy for adolescent substance abuse, Schumacher, Dutchowski and Algarin (1993) report that success varies depending upon a...
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...Department of Justice Ministère de la Justice Canada Canada WORKING DOCUMENT THE EFFECTS OF DIVORCE ON CHILDREN A Selected Literature Review Research and Statistics Division October 1997 WD1998-2e UNEDITED Research and Statistics Division/ Division de la recherche et de la statistique Policy Sector/ Secteur des politiques WORKING DOCUMENT THE EFFECTS OF DIVORCE ON CHILDREN A Selected Literature Review Research and Statistics Division October 1997 WD1998-2e UNEDITED The views expressed in this paper do not necessarily reflect those of the Department of Justice Canada. iii TABLE OF CONTENTS 1.0 INTRODUCTION ....................................................................................... 1 2.0 LIMITATIONS OF THE RESEARCH .............................................................. 3 3.0 FACTORS AFFECTING CHILDREN’S POSTDIVORCE ADJUSTMENT ................. 6 3.1 Child Characteristics............................................................................ 6 3.1.1 Gender ................................................................................. 6 3.1.2 Age at Divorce ....................................................................... 8 3.2 Family Characteristics.......................................................................... 9 3.2.1 Socio-economic Status .............................................................. 9 3.2.2 Ethno-cultural Background...................................................
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...couple have very distant relationship. The intervention theory consists of focus theory a quick divorce as the client desires. Example, “He says he believes that he can survive without...
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...The science in psychology introduces the thoughts that most have about how the human mind functions and questions that some have about behavioral issues. To receive more acceptances from society theories are tested through research. To do researches a research question are obtain to gather more information, depending on the research different scientific method shows different ways on obtaining results. Different types of data are obtained through research. Typical Research Articles Each section on a research paper serves a vital part to a research project. A typical research paper has seven main parts which includes abstract page, title page, an introduction, results and discussion, method, a references page and title. The title page illustrates the main topic of the research study, including the important variables. The abstract provide the reader with a quick review of the article’s content. The introduction serves as the body of the paper. It introduces the reader to the overall issue or problem that is being tested and to provide justification for the hypotheses or hypothesis. The method purpose is to provide a detailed description of how the study was conducted. Results purpose is to describe what was found after statistically analyzing the data. The discussion section reviews, interprets, and evaluate the results of the study. The reference page is to help you find related articles for any topic you need to research. Critical evaluation...
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...Although the proposed policy interventions would support the reduction of child morality in SSA, they can only be seen as a foundation for further work due to the uni-dimensional approach. The use of generalized policy reform is problematic as research shows that a variety of other variables can directly influence child mortality, such as regional differences and disease, and thus must also be controlled for. It is worth pointing out that, despite the results of their study indicating that child mortality levels vary across regions, Amouzou and Hill (2005) fail to address the need for individualised policy intervention to specifically target problem regions. Despite being more time consuming and costly, this method of intervention would...
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...Friedman Family Assessment Paper Family Dynamics Family dynamics can be very complicated. “According to Dr. Murray Bowen…families are complex units that are bonded by strong emotional connects. The ways in which members of the family interact with each other and in relation to the group as a whole are often referred to as family dynamics” (Bowles, 2011, para. 1). A following assessment of the BJ & BP’s family was completed using the Friedman Family Assessment Tool. History of Family BJ & BP meet at a mutual friend’s house in December 1999. They dated for almost two years before getting married on August 18, 2001. Their family is a blended family with three children CM, who is a 16-year-old girl, CJ. who is a seven-year old boy, and DM, who is a five- year old girl. The father, BP, is a 34-year-old Caucasian male of American Irish Catholic descent who has been working as a truck-driver for US Gas Company since 2006. During BP’s childhood he lived with his mother, then father, and then his grandparents and never received his high school diploma or GED. The mother, BJ, is also 34-year-old American Caucasian of mixed heritage. BJ was a teen mom delivering her 1st daughter, CM, one month before her 18th birthday. BJ and CM’s father were married in July, prior to CM’s birth, after BJ graduated from high school. BJ and CM”s father divorced 4 years later. After the divorce BJ and CM lived with BJ’s mother for two years before BJ and BP married. BJ currently works at the Secretary...
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...Divorce is a widely spread topic in today’s society. Many couples are now testing the relationship by moving in together before they get married. After living together for a while the either choose to marry or choose to move on. Some couples still wait until they get married to move in together. Different studies show that cohabitation and divorce rates vary due to ethnicity, different living situations, education, women with children and also has to do with the use of drugs. In this paper I will focus on what is the relationship between premarital cohabitation and divorce rates. One main reason for divorce is attributed to uncertainty about the quality of the current match and other characteristics that are important for a partnership. When beginning a partnership two partners have only limited information on each other. As time passes, the couple learns new information on the quality of the match and on the outside options of each partner and the couple decides whether to break up or continue the partnership. The longer a relationship has lasted, the lower the risk of break up. Couples who start out as cohabitants have the advantage of gathering information about their partner before marrying. Therefore only good matches evolve into marriage, and marriages preceded by cohabitation should have a lower risk of divorce (Svarer 2006). Married couples who begin their relationship by cohabiting appear to face an increased risk of marital dissolution...
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...can be smoked. One of the most risky effects of teenage cocaine use is that the body can develop a tolerance to the drug, and the user needs increasingly larger doses of the drug to achieve the same feeling. This can increase the chance of an overdose, as the user takes successively greater amounts of cocaine in an effort to get high. In certain cases, first time users of cocaine have suffered from sudden death, the possibility of which dramatically increases when alcohol is simultaneously consumed. The objective of this paper is to discuss the symptom of the abuse in teenagers, the degree that the substance is interfering with the individual’s functioning and current stressors. In addition the paper will discuss the risk and protective factor for teenager involved in this process. Last the conclusion would included recommendation to avoid teenager be involved in this scenario. The development of this paper will take as a model the fictional...
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...therapist. The purpose of this paper is to examine a brief history and the development of marriage and family therapy, and its importance to the counseling field. Five aspects of this field will be discussed: roles of marriage and family therapist, training and licensure requirements, techniques used in marriage and family therapy, client or therapist initiated termination, and confidentiality. Also, important elements of counselor identity, function, and ethics related to marriage family therapy will also be discussed. The author will also provide biblical values and insights related to the field of marriage and family therapy. In conclusion, the author will discuss their commitment to provide biblically- Keywords: family therapy, marriage therapy Marriage and Family Therapy Because of the many challenges families are faced with, marriage and family therapy has received increased attention. Overtime, the family structure has become more diverse. Families are no longer your typical nuclear family, where Father, Mother, and children live under one roof. At the present time, families may consist of step-parents, step-children, grandparents, adopted children, single parents, aunts and uncles, and same-sex couples (Smith, Carlson, Stevens- Smith, & Dennison, 2005). The problems confronting families are more perplexing than they once were. In the United Stated about half of marriages remain intact. Every year over a million divorces take place, and for every 1,000...
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...Markman English Composition 18 March 2015 The Affects Divorce Has on Children “But in the real world, you couldn’t really just split a family down the middle, mom on one side, dad the other, with the child equally divided between. It was like when you ripped a piece of paper into two: no matter how you tried, the seams never fit exactly right again. It was what you couldn't see, those tiniest of pieces, that were lost in the severing, and their absence kept everything from being complete.” - Sarah Dessen Throughout the United States divorce has increasingly risen in the past years. “In 2000, 49% of US marriages ended in divorce” (Gianoulis). Children everywhere are becoming the products of broken families; caught in between a mommy and daddy, when before, there was no choice. Before, all there was was comfort, familiarity and stability. Although divorce may seem like the best option in an unhappy situation, the affects on the children’s emotional state can be harmful. These effects are emotionally, psychological, academically, socially, and economically damaging. To begin, in a study by Laumann-Billings and Emery they found that children of divorce suffer emotionally. This allows for new generations of broken families to be made. The saying “the apple doesn’t fall too far from the tree” would apply. In the article, Divorce by Brackett and Woolly, the authors say approximately 400,000 of the estimated million cases of divorce a year result in children being “emotionally disturbed...
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...3 RIGHT TO DIVORCE FOR MUSLIM WOMAN AND KHULA SUBMITTED BY: POUSHALI NANDI CLASS: III BA-LLB (C) REGISTER NO: 1216227 INTRODUCTION Romans, Hebrews, Israelis, all such religion had divorce in one or the other forms. But even though such provision was recognised in all religions Islam is perhaps the first religion which has expressly recognised the termination of marriage by way of divorce. Divorce among the ancient Arabs was easy and of frequent occurrence. In fact, this tendency has even persisted to some extent, in Islamic law in spite of the fact that Prophet showed his dislike to it. It was regarded by the Prophet to be the worst and hateful form of divorce before the Almighty God as it prevented conjugal happiness and also effected the proper bringing up of a child. Under Muslim law, a marriage is dissolved either by the death of the husband or wife, or by divorce. After the death of a wife, the husband may remarry immediately. But the widow cannot remarry before a certain period called ‘iddat’ expires. In case of death of the husband, iddat period is four months and ten days. In case of pregnant woman, iddat period is till the delivery of the child. Generally both the parties to marriage have an option to divorce, but the husband’s right is considered to be greater than that of the woman. The woman or the wife cannot divorce herself from her husband without his consent. But this does not mean that the wife has no right to divorce under Muslim...
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