This topic involving divorce and children is one topic that has always been interesting to me my entire four years of studying sociology. Today divorce has a huge impact on a child’s life and the way they act and communicate in life. Almost half of the American children today must cope at some point in their lives with the breakdown of their parents’ marriage. Lots of research and my studies still leave us with many questions on how divorce affects children, are parents better off staying together for the child’s sake? Or Is divorce the right thing to do?
When looking at statistics relating to divorce and children the calculations of the amount of families that our divorce with children is 11 percent lower than in the 1980’s but is still shown as an extravagant number. Divorce rates in the early 1970’s rose quickly to 79 percent and children happened were seen as more stable when seen living with just one parent than with both parents. In the United States today, there are approximately 1,250,000 divorces …show more content…
Divorce interrupts stable monitoring, problem solving, and consistent discipline, and each of them contribute to failing at school and deviant peer association (ADD). If the parent is occupied by work or taking care of the house, then that parent will not be able to see what their child is doing. Divorced parents tend to be less consistent, exercise less control, and do less monitoring over children (ADD). Without parental monitoring a child may be led by a group of friends or someone to hang out with others known as criminals and the parent won’t even become aware of it. Hanging out with a group of friends that gets in trouble constantly will impact a child’s performance in school. If a child obtains many rights, they might feel like they are in control of the parent. In a divorce, a child can feel that they can do whatever they want because they can sense does not have enough
When looking at statistics relating to divorce and children the calculations of the amount of families that our divorce with children is 11 percent lower than in the 1980’s but is still shown as an extravagant number. Divorce rates in the early 1970’s rose quickly to 79 percent and children happened were seen as more stable when seen living with just one parent than with both parents. In the United States today, there are approximately 1,250,000 divorces …show more content…
Divorce interrupts stable monitoring, problem solving, and consistent discipline, and each of them contribute to failing at school and deviant peer association (ADD). If the parent is occupied by work or taking care of the house, then that parent will not be able to see what their child is doing. Divorced parents tend to be less consistent, exercise less control, and do less monitoring over children (ADD). Without parental monitoring a child may be led by a group of friends or someone to hang out with others known as criminals and the parent won’t even become aware of it. Hanging out with a group of friends that gets in trouble constantly will impact a child’s performance in school. If a child obtains many rights, they might feel like they are in control of the parent. In a divorce, a child can feel that they can do whatever they want because they can sense does not have enough