What are the Effects of Divorce on children?
According to Amato (2014), he states, “children with divorced parents, compared with children with two continuously married parents, score lower (on average) on a variety of measures of achievement, adjustment, and well-being.” It is a generally accepted hypothesis that divorce has unfavorable effects on its members. Particularly, it is assumed that produces negative consequences to children. As Demo, D. H. & Acock, A. C. (1988), stated, “Theoretically, it has been assumed that the nuclear family is the norm and, by implication, that any departure from it is deviant and therefore deleterious to those involved”. Nonetheless, they also comment that “Even if this were the case, no theoretical perspective recognizes that these effects may be short-lived or otherwise mitigated by compensatory mechanisms and alternative role models”. Many studies reveal that divorce has detrimental consequences for children including academic results and misbehavior. However there are few studies asserting that in certain circumstances divorce could be beneficial for the …show more content…
According to Weiss (I979), these children [all who experiment parent’s divorce] frequently assume a variety of domestic responsibilities to compensate for the absent parent, thereby broadening their skills and competencies and their definitions of gender-appropriate behavior. Amato and Booth 1997 suggest that children most likely get benefits from parental divorce, particularly when parents endured years of frequent and intense marital conflict. Raschke & Raschke, 1979 question the reliability of all the studies that conclude the negative effects of divorce. They state that much of the literature on divorce and children seems ideologically driven and biased toward emphasizing negative effects on children. In brief, not all consequences in divorce are deleterious, as suggested by many studies on the
According to Amato (2014), he states, “children with divorced parents, compared with children with two continuously married parents, score lower (on average) on a variety of measures of achievement, adjustment, and well-being.” It is a generally accepted hypothesis that divorce has unfavorable effects on its members. Particularly, it is assumed that produces negative consequences to children. As Demo, D. H. & Acock, A. C. (1988), stated, “Theoretically, it has been assumed that the nuclear family is the norm and, by implication, that any departure from it is deviant and therefore deleterious to those involved”. Nonetheless, they also comment that “Even if this were the case, no theoretical perspective recognizes that these effects may be short-lived or otherwise mitigated by compensatory mechanisms and alternative role models”. Many studies reveal that divorce has detrimental consequences for children including academic results and misbehavior. However there are few studies asserting that in certain circumstances divorce could be beneficial for the …show more content…
According to Weiss (I979), these children [all who experiment parent’s divorce] frequently assume a variety of domestic responsibilities to compensate for the absent parent, thereby broadening their skills and competencies and their definitions of gender-appropriate behavior. Amato and Booth 1997 suggest that children most likely get benefits from parental divorce, particularly when parents endured years of frequent and intense marital conflict. Raschke & Raschke, 1979 question the reliability of all the studies that conclude the negative effects of divorce. They state that much of the literature on divorce and children seems ideologically driven and biased toward emphasizing negative effects on children. In brief, not all consequences in divorce are deleterious, as suggested by many studies on the