Divorce: Negative Effects On Family

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Divorce negative effects on family
Introduction
Divorce is a heavy decision making between couples, this situation becomes even more complicated when their children get involved. As divorce has become more and more common is this society, it is necessary to study the negative effects on children in divorce family. Since many children do not adjust their life well after their parents gets divorced. Life becomes more stressful because of the economic loss and the loss of their parents. Therefore, divorces of parents cause many bad effects on their children.
In this paper I will be analysis three pieces of literature; they are a website, a magazine and a peer reviewed scholarly journal. The name of the website is MDRC, and the name of the article
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(Stahl1)The information from this article is secondary in nature. The article does not provide depth information about the negative effect divorce instead it inform the audience how life change after the divorce.( Stahl1)There is no page link to other website and organization. Also there is not reference from other source. (Stahl1)
Timeliness
This article was published on 1 July 2015 on the Family Advocate magazine.( Stahl1) There is not last update for this article.( Stahl1) This article is very updated relatively to 2016. It is within five years old cutoff point. So we consider this article as current material.( Stahl1) There is no citation nor link offer in this article so that you can get further information toward this topic.( Stahl1)
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(Stahl1) The author’s name is Phlip M. Stahl. He is the forensic psychologist in private practice living in Maricopa County, Arizona. He has various experiences on consultation and witness testimony in child custody litigation in America. Also he is continuing education for attorney, judges and psychologists. (American Bar Associate) There are no links or references to show the origin of facts and quotes. The website is based on author’s experience of his study so I think the author has bias on divorce actually effect children’s life negatively. (Stahl1) The word and phrase does play to my emotion or bas toward this article, especially when it mention about when you taking to a kid who parents just get divorce, you should avoid question about their parent, instead you should focus on children’s activities, friendships , schooling and share information what is going on in our life. (Stahl1)I notice that, so many people forget about actually those children are fragile and they are suffering from parents’ divorce. From the content of the article, I can’t see there is any advertisement or bias on selling particular product rather than providing objective information. The article is published on a magazine so I cannot determine the domain of the website.

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