How Children Grow Up
Mary Knowles
PSY-110
DR. Hoggins
1/24/2016

Abstract:
How Children Grow Up
Ever wonder why children behave the way they do? The answer can have a dependable factor of the lifestyle they were brought up in. A main factor is how they were raised and what they went through as a kid. Statistically children raised in a broken home enters a struggle, and effects the rest of their life. As you read I will explain much further and help you gasp a better understanding of how you raise your kids and what they go through has a great impact on the rest of their life, and how they react to it.

Behavior in children is a topic that can questionable by many peers dealing with the child directly. Reasons for superior as well as poor behavior can have many contributing reasons but for this study Ivan Russell studies the home life for a reason. It is said that broken homes has a major cause for problem children and many educators, sociologist, and law enforcement have become concerned. Now as to if the claim is true studies in the past have not addressed this topic and nor with any controls (Russell, p. 24). Of a study done by Silverman in 1935, he took a total of 138 children in foster homes and started research. Of the models he took homes where there were the ill health and death, mental factors, social delinquency, and a series neglect of cruelty. Of the crowd 25 percent of the children had abnormal personalities and conduct difficulties. The result showed that there was not a big significant relation between the children and the behavior from a broken home (Russell, p. 24). Another study done by C.L Loutitt who conducted 14 studies however, showed that 50 percent of delinquents came from broken homes 25 percent from incidence. That the brokenness came from death twice to the problem of divorce or separation in the home (Russell, p. 24). When compared to only one parent which was difficult the U.S. Children’s Bureau indicated only 7% of delinquent boys when the loss parent was the mother. 12% when the father died and 2% when both were lost. The study revealed that the rate for problem children arises when the father is left to the child. Although the study would reflect the bad behavior as to extent of what type of behavior was not possible (Russell, p. 25). In all the study written by Russell revealed that the problem cause for behavior in children in broken homes would result from the cause of a death in the family. Now looking the scope from a newspaper article in the Daily Mail (Doughty, 2008) his views are more of the result being mental. In Doughty’s article the risk for emotional distress and anti-social behavior was reduced when raised in a home with both parents. In the Government research for the study the dependency was not so much based on the living condition, education, or health of the family rather the background of the family. The data from the research collected added to the wealth stemming from homes of divorced parents or parents in the break up zone (Doughty, 2008). When examined from a single parent view children were likely to do poorly in school, poor health, at risk of committing crime, and developing addictions that adults suffer from. This report was funded by the Department of Health and published by the Office for National Statistics. Researchers studied nearly 8,000 children in 2004 ranging from 5 to 16. The result was that one in ten had a disorder. Those children were than checked a year later and revealed that the parents who split at the time of conducting research were 4 ½ times more likely to develop a mental disorder than to those whose parents stayed together (Doughty 2008). Other statistics were 11% of children from broken homes had mental disorders to the odds of 3 % of families still together. The likely hood of misconduct being 3 times more. Those children who were found to have mental issues in 2004 still suffered from them 3 years later. In the end even with the Department of Health ensuring help with the issues academic Patricia Morgan was not surprised at all with the facts and in fact expects things to only get worse (Doughty, 2008). The results conveying that children in broken homes and serial fathers only produce a house full of conflict and chaos and its only terrible for children (Doughty, 2008). When discussing the reliability of the sources I feel that to an extent can poor behavior result from a broken family. While both sources conducted a study on multiple children from this background I think studying children who survived broken homes and came out on top could be beneficial to their study. There may be tons of problem children who have issues behavioral wise and mental but I am sure there are plenty who lived in misery and came out of the homes making a better life for themselves. I am not to say that any child from these roots struggle in everyday life to included academics, socially, and mentally and I am sure they do I just feel more study could be done to evaluate the differences. In the end I do feel that the research done here was effective enough for the researchers to write their conclusions.

References
Doughty, S. (2008, October 21). Broken Home Children Are 5 times More Likely To Suffer Mental Troubles . Retrieved from http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1079510/Children-broken-homes-times-likely-suffer-mental-troubles-says-Government-study.html.
Russell, I. L. (n.d.). The Journal of Educational Sociology. Behavior Problems of Children from Broken and Intact Homes, 124-129.

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