The effects of parental divorce on middle-late childhood and adolescents Many years ago traditional family was seen as the main goal for many couples that were recently engaged or were married. Nowadays this is not a goal anymore, as it seems that traditional family is a challenge for many couples. Every time someone gets married the last thing they want to think about is getting a divorced. Divorce is something that we attempt to see more and more often. In today’s world, divorce is a normative event, which is affecting approximately half of all marriages in the United States (U.S. Census Bureau, 2004). The rise in divorce can definitely correspond to the law of many states allowing unilateral divorces. As Stated by Jonathan Gruber (2000),
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Santrock (2015), “in middle and late childhood, children tend to be on a different plane, belonging to a generation and feeling all their own…During this stage children tend to be more ready to learn than during the period of expansive imagination at the end of early childhood” (2015). During this stage children also tend to develop a need of wanting to make things, and not just to make them, but also to make them well and even perfectly. Children during this stage also tend to be remarkable for their intelligence and for their curiosity. During this stage parents tend to play a tremendous role for children, they continue to be an important influences in their lives, but their growth also is shaped by peers and friends (2015). Since parents continue to be very important in the life of children during this stage there is a tremendous need to analyze how parental divorce affect middle and late childhood during this …show more content…
Results from this study demonstrated that children from divorced families had more behavior problems compared to children from intact families, according to both teachers and mothers. Divorce also predicted both short-term and long-term rank order increases in behavior problems (2015). Results from this study also demonstrated that “children were more likely to exhibit behavioral problems after parental divorce if their post divorce home environment was less supportive, their mothers was less sensitive and more depressed and their household income was lower” (Weaver & Schofield, 2015). This information is important because it shows that the effects that parental divorce has on children has a lot to do with the life that children were living before their parents had a divorce. As stated by Amato (2001), parental divorce does not affect all children to the same extent… Some children tend to ride out the dissolution of their family relatively unscathed, while others tend to continue to show some difficulties in behavioral and psychological adjustment
Santrock (2015), “in middle and late childhood, children tend to be on a different plane, belonging to a generation and feeling all their own…During this stage children tend to be more ready to learn than during the period of expansive imagination at the end of early childhood” (2015). During this stage children also tend to develop a need of wanting to make things, and not just to make them, but also to make them well and even perfectly. Children during this stage also tend to be remarkable for their intelligence and for their curiosity. During this stage parents tend to play a tremendous role for children, they continue to be an important influences in their lives, but their growth also is shaped by peers and friends (2015). Since parents continue to be very important in the life of children during this stage there is a tremendous need to analyze how parental divorce affect middle and late childhood during this …show more content…
Results from this study demonstrated that children from divorced families had more behavior problems compared to children from intact families, according to both teachers and mothers. Divorce also predicted both short-term and long-term rank order increases in behavior problems (2015). Results from this study also demonstrated that “children were more likely to exhibit behavioral problems after parental divorce if their post divorce home environment was less supportive, their mothers was less sensitive and more depressed and their household income was lower” (Weaver & Schofield, 2015). This information is important because it shows that the effects that parental divorce has on children has a lot to do with the life that children were living before their parents had a divorce. As stated by Amato (2001), parental divorce does not affect all children to the same extent… Some children tend to ride out the dissolution of their family relatively unscathed, while others tend to continue to show some difficulties in behavioral and psychological adjustment