Alimony

Dr. Archibald D. Hart uses his professional clinical psychologist experiences combine with his personal childhood experiences surrounding divorce to create the book Helping Children Survive Divorce: What to Expect: How to Help. Dr. Hart (1997) purpose of writing this book is to help the dissociating parents to be able to lessen the toll of the unhappy homes making the children turn out to be the unhappy children (130-131). Dr. Hart’s (1997) book will help the divorcing parents learn the…

Dan Loughlin Discussion 6 I think that this practice is still used today because it has become apart of the culture when people get married. Over the years it has always become natural and it is assumed that women will take the last name of the people they are going to marry. I think that it is assumed that that the women will take the last name of the man and not the other way around because it is thought that the husband is the masculine part of the marriage. In the past, it…

According to Cleak, Schofield and Bickerdike in their article, “Efficacy of family mediation and the role of family violence: study protocol” a family is a basis block in a community. Thus, it is very important to maintaining of family building. Many families exposure to problems that threat the family and in many situations these problems lead to divorce and then collapse a family. An unstable family has serious consequences on all members of family. Many studies reported that children of…

I interviewed three people of varying ages, genders and ethnicity about family. They had both similar and differing thoughts and ideas. Some of their comments reflected research surrounding family studies, while some of their comments contradict the research or are unique ideas. A review of their interview shows a glimpse of how their diversity influences their answers. The first question I will go over is how each interviewee defined family. My oldest interviewee RR was the only one to state…

Kathleen O’Connell Corcoran article Psychological and Emotional Aspects of Divorce explains in great detail the effects, stages, and reactions for divorce. She also explains the effects and reactions that are typical for women, men, and the child/ren of the parents getting divorced. The article begins with the details of how common divorce really is and the statistics of divorce and the statistics for children who have divorced parents and parents who were not married. The United States has…

The Impact of Divorced Parents on Their Children Life with divorced parents can be a challenge for some children. Some of the reasons are that divorced parents can impact their children’s communication, security, and stability. The impact on children’s communication, insecurity, and stability can cause problems with few aspects of the children’s daily lives for example, in the relationships in school or work. One impact that divorced parents can cause on their children is communication. When…

It is the rare divorce that is truly amicable and goes smoothly. In the opinion of counseling professionals, less than 25 percent of divorces are amicable, according to FOX News Magazine. If anyone were privy to the tone of the end of a marriage, it would be the counselors. In some cases, both spouses are on the warpath and, in others, one person obviously tries to make the best of the situation while the other goes out of their way to be difficult. Either way, in the absence of a cordial and…

Unwed childbearing is on the rise, 40% of all births are to unwed mothers. Marriage is a union between two people that should last a lifetime, but with researching this subject it has been found that divorces are lowering, therefore, many couples are no longer choosing to get married leading to higher unwed childbirths. Millennial’s views on marriage and the welfare state’s role in society are the primary contributors to this trend. Many hardworking single parents have raised successful and…

When you are considering marrying someone, thousands of things are swirling around in your head. To make a marriage work the couple has to set boundaries, be considerate, and be committed. Marriage would be super easy if both parties agreed on everything, but marriage was not meant to be easy. A key to a successful marriage is religion, but what happens when a person in the marriage doesn’t believe in the same eternal fate. There are 4,200 religions in the world, so this is bound to occur. Love…

Events in life can change the way people think of their lives. I attended an interracial marriage that taught me the meaning of love, adjustment and sacrifice. The bride (Anjali) and the groom (Ryan) are happily married because of the love they share for each other. They had to make significant adjustments in their lifestyle in order to do that. With adjustments come a significant amount of sacrifices that both bride and the groom had to make. At the end of that day, I learned how to adjust,…