...When Parents Divorce The Effects on Children June 10, 2013 PSYCH 210 ABSTRACT When a couple makes the difficult decision to file for divorce, it not only impacts them, but it impacts their children. A child’s world is their family. In a child’s eye their mother and father together is a huge part of that. Today, 6.8 out of 1,000 marriages end in divorce (CDC, 2013). Some children deal with behavioral and emotional disorders from divorce. It is always in the interest of the children, for the parents to do absolutely everything they can to get along and stay together. The toll that a divorce can take on a child can be devastating. If the parents cannot be amicable and get along even after they are apart, the child may be put in the middle of the arguments. They feel unwanted, unloved, ignored and may even feel like a pawn in a chess game. The image of a failed marriage may give the child the false impression that marriage cannot last forever. When Parents Divorce When a couple decides to end their marriage with children involved, what impact does this have on their children? It is often thought of that children are resilient and will get past it, but it seems that may not be as true as everyone thinks. A child feels safe, secure and loved when their parents are together. Changing that family dynamic can affect the child’s feelings of safety, security, and the feeling of being loved. Some factors are more obvious than others. The affects can be different from between...
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...The Effects of Divorce Divorce is extremely common today. No fault divorce took away a marriage’s legal power to bind a husband and wife, allowing one spouse to dissolve a marriage for any reason or for no reason at all. This is causing numerous children to be raised in single family homes. Children then have to adjust to new situations and feelings. The traditional family consisting of a man, his wife, and their children seems to be history. Today divorce is considered normal, almost expected for most couples getting married. But there is much more to divorce than just family matters. Divorce has an effect on society, children, and finances. Divorce can hinder society by dissolving families and weakening belief in the family as a social unit. A family does more than unite people by marriage and blood. It provides the education, financial and emotional support its members need to survive socially. Without this the adults and children become less productive socially. According to The Evolution of Divorce: Marriage provides benefits both to children and to society. Although it was once possible to believe that the nations high rates of divorce, cohabitation, and nonmarital childbearing represented little more than lifestyle alternatives brought about by the freedom to pursue individual self-fulfillment, many analysts now believe that these individual choices can be damaging to the children who have no say in them and to the society that enables them. (Wilcox, 2009...
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...STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEMS Divorce in the Philippines DEFINITION OF TERMS Divorce - an institutionalized arrangement for terminating the marriage relationship and allowing each partner the right to remarry. Marriage – is not a mere contract but an inviolable social institution. Adultery – is an act which is committed by a married woman who shall have sexual intercourse with a man not her husband. Concubinage – is on the part of a husband who shall keep a mistress in the conjugal dwelling or a certain dwelling place and hall have a sexual intercourse under scandalous circumstances with another woman not his wife. Absolute Divorce – is the type of divorce where the party has the right lawfully to marry again. HISTORY OF DIVORCE The term divorce is not foreign to Filipinos, whose forefathers in the pre-Spanish times, according to some historians, practiced it. History tells us that in 1912 that is during the American regime Act No. 2710 was passed providing for the granting of absolute divorce on the grounds of adultery, concubinage and personal violence. However, when the laws was implemented, a number of safeguards were taken to ensure the preservation of marital bond and to prevent abuses, such as filing for divorce could not be done until a year after having established adultery or concubinage and within five years after the date occurred. This measure was resorted to in order to give the spouses a chance for reconciliation it was still possible during the period...
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