Divorce

The major objective of this paper is to look at the divorce rate in the United States, and how it effects Preschool, School age children, and finally adolescents. In the United States, many children deal with their parents getting a divorce. Children whose parents get a divorce report getting lower grades, feeling more depressed , as well as have poor conduct compared to children whose families are intact. When parents first get a divorce it is very rocky for their children to get…

David Popenoe and Barbara Dafoe Whitehead’s article “The State of our Unions” discusses data on marriage and divorce. It suggests that there is a cultural shift happening in America by using this information for support. In the data driven article, Popenoe and Whitehead claim that marriage rates are declining and, despite divorce rates being quite high, they are also on a steady decline. Alternatively, more people are participating in unmarried cohabitation before and in place of marriage.…

This is a brief article written by a retired judge which provides that “parenting plan mediation” often only focuses on the people at the table; the parents. This article influenced our mediation case in that it points out that while a successful mediation between the parents saves them time and money by avoiding litigation, the person(s) that benefit the most from a successful mediation regarding child custody are the children. The source contends that research has concluded that conflict…

a child only had one parent it was assumed the father was at war or one of them had died of a tragic sickness. America today is quick to assume one of the parents has left the family because of the normality it is turing into. Lastly, in America divorce rates have also gone up causing the increase of single parent…

making a rise all over the world, divorce rates are also on the rise all over the world. Back decades ago, divorcing wasn’t a common thing. Families usually stayed together rather than splitting apart. In 1960 studies showed that the divorce rate was higher than it had been in 1940. “Public Opinion is swinging back more toward restrictive divorce laws. (Support for tougher laws is strong among young adults, many of whom directly felt the consequences of divorce as children.) (Galston, Summer…

Working with children can be challenging at times. Quite often there are risk factors in a child’s life, that causes challenging behavior. These are most commonly biological or environmental. The research that follows focuses on environmental factors. More specifically, single parent families. Children from single parent hones may present more trouble, and demand more time and effort from their teachers at school. Families usually provide stability for a child. This stability gives children the…

William Lyon Phelps, who was a well-known American author, critic, and scholar once said “The highest happiness on earth is the happiness of marriage”. Marriage is a life changing experience. People always ask, who’s that person that I am going to spend the rest of my life with? In an ideal marriage, one is with the person one loves and the two of them start a family together. Marriage gives them financial stability and it assures trust and commitment between them. There are people who will…

South 11.1 % of women has the highest percentage rate for divorce. Next in the South men have the highest rate of 10.2%. The second highest divorce rate location is in the West. Women still have a higher divorce rate, then men. In the West women divorces rate are 9.8% and men have a rate of 9.2%. The Northeast has the fewest number of divorce rates compared to the South and the West. Women in the Northeast still have a higher percentage of divorce rates than men. When comparing the two, women…

means antiquated gender roles are changing too, right? Wrong. Since forty to fifty percent of all married couples in the United States get divorced, parents often have to fight for custody of their children. Statistically speaking, in the event of a divorce, the mother is more likely to get custody of the child unless she has substance abuse problems or other issues that might affect her own health. This is unfair because a father who could be a better parent to his child is often passed over in…

legislation but the entire welfare system and mass incarceration has propagated a society in which marriage and the commitment it requires is viewed as unnecessary and archaic. Furthermore, divorce and sexual deviance have undermined and debilitated the strength of the family. “Due to the continuing high rates of divorce, reconstituted families, shared custody, and single-parent homes have become…