Children With Divorced Parents Research Paper

For many year, the struggles that are being faced by the children growing up with a divorced or a single parent family, have been viewed with sympathy and with great solicitude. Living with divorced parents instead of with a married couple might seem impossible for some yet over the decades in has become more prevalent. In today’s society, many children with divorced parents have grown up with determination to become successful to cross over the rocky path that life bestows upon all human beings. Rebecca Johnson, is among one of the children with divorced parents who is planning on suing both her parents for contribution toward her Seton Hall University tuition. Parents are obligated to provide their children with the basic necessities of life …show more content…
Right now millions of children are missing out on their right to an education. They can’t go to school because they have to work to survive, because they are girls or even because there are no schools where they live. Middle college v. Chandler, the earliest reported case in the United States, decided in 1844, to consider whether a college education is a “necessity” (Cohen 190). By comparing a college education to a common school education, the court concluded that a college education was “not necessary” in a legal sense, whereas a “common school education was necessary” because it was essential to one’s overall usefulness in society (Cohen 190). Therefore, it is evident that an underlying basis for the court’s determination was that most people did not have a college education, so it could not possible be considered as essential necessity of life when so many people were able to manage without one. Thus, Rebecca should try to work part time to pay for college because for many, college is an honor which should not be taken for granted. Since college is viewed as a necessity, even when Rebecca chooses to sue her parents, they should not be obligated to deposit any money for …show more content…
However, an undergraduate education is not nearly as necessary as food, shelter, and medical care because one can still make a living with a basic high school education. Opponents for this argument, might come to quick conclusion that without a college education a child would be severely restrained from pursing most trades and professions because he or she would be forced to compete against people who possessed greater skill as a result of such higher education. Conversely, there are many job available in this world that only require a high school degree, therefore in order to stand on her on feet, Rebecca should start pursing jobs to pay for her college.
Every child, whether living or not with married or divorced parents, go through the struggle of paying for college in today’s society. Many students who are in the same situation as Rebecca, have to earn money to go obtain their degree. Respectively, taking Rebecca’s issue into consideration, it is best for her parents not to pay for tuition, because she is not alone and she should learn how to handle the stress, how to be a young responsible adult, and how to deal with the reality in such circumstance instead of depending on the money from her divorced