Children With Divorced Parents

Each and every kid comes from a different home and different life style. Rather it be the super religious household or all the way to them being able to do whatever they want. This is what gives kids the diversity when they are in elementary school and trying to find friends at an early age. Some of this kids only have one parent there whole life due to the death of the other parent or the other parent is in jail for most of their childhood and some have both parents and never had to deal with something like that. Then, half of these kids deal with the divorce of their parents. Kids with parents that are divorced can maintain good grades and behavior in school and build successful lives when the parents put their kid first and stay on them until they get old enough to do it themselves.
Nowadays feel like everyone's parents are getting divorced. According to the U.S. census, about 50 percent of all American children born in 1982 will have parents that will be divorced sometime within there 18 years of living at home (Beekman, 1986, par. 1). Studies show that it depends on how far the child is in there development process and their age. If the child is really young they will react different than a child who is in there teenage years. The age range from 5 to 8 will …show more content…
Keep the child on a schedule, make the child do their homework at both house at the same time. Keep the same times at each household for everything. Both parents need to act like business partners when it comes to the child. This will help the parents put the child first and there other problems second (Kids, divorce, and school success, n.d. par 2-12). Figure out how you will divide the child’s time, put them in a sport for after school, put them in an after school activity so they can maintain relationships with people and know how to talk to other people. This will not only help them in school but for future relationships as