Divorce

In Dr. Coontz’s talk, she discusses common myths about and the history of marriage and family. She informatively and succinctly exposes myths and terminates common misconceptions about the history of family, while explaining the current age of familial flexibility. Single parent families and stepfamilies are concepts that are typically thought out of as new occasions, however, Dr. Coontz explains how they are more traditional than we think they are. As it turns out, one-parent families were…

“Child custody and visitation cases are decided by what is in the best interest of the child. The judges will order certain custody and visitation depending on what they believe is in the best interest of the child (Levin)”. When there are cases that involve domestic violence the parent’s be interest, rather than the child’s best interest, have played a part in the custody and visitation decisions. There are two different perceptive on this matter. First, advocates of women that have been a…

Growing up throughout elementary school, I always knew my parents would eventually get a divorce. I had always known my parents were going to get a divorce. When the day came at the beginning of sixth grade, my parents sat me down and told me that they were getting a divorce. At the time, I didn’t really know what to expect, but I didn’t let it bother me. Going throughout middle school and high school, having divorced parents disrupted my plans, gave me 2 homes, and I went down a path that I…

to the other. It is important to note that many family issues can be handled outs the confines of the court systems; however, delicate issues such as marriage, child custody and child support and divorce and alimony require the input of skilled attorney. In deed cases such as those that involve divorce can disrupt every aspect of you life in one single blow. The effects can cause financial disruption, emotional distress, and even fear of the future among other disruptions. An experienced…

Introduction A single parent is an uncoupled individual who shoulders most or all of the day-to-day responsibilities for raising a child or children. Single-parent families can be defined as families where a parent lives with dependent children, either alone or in a larger household, without a spouse or partner. A mother is more often the primary caregiver in a single-parent family structure. There are many factors that causes people become a single parent. First and…

Crisis, a significant emotional event in which people feel a loss of control or are unable to cope. Everyone struggles with conflict in their day to day lives, and if not dealt with soon enough, to many people, it may lead to a crisis. One person’s crisis may not be an issue to another person, but to them it is. This is why crisis is such an open term. It is not something easily defined such as pain or suffering is; but it can cause those emotions in many different people, in many different ways…

Parental alienation syndrome, at first the term was foreign to me, until after reading the definition I then noticed that not only did I understand its definition, but I could also relate it to my own personal life which was my reason for choosing this topic for my paper. Throughout my paper I will critique the credibility of the magazine article “Teaching Kids to Hate” published by Jose Fernandez of the American Bar Association in June 1988, by comparing it to the following educational…

According to Newman and Newman (2015), negative feelings stemming from rejection cause children to withdraw socially. This is the child’s method of protecting themselves. In this case, social competence seems to play a major role in Tracy’s described behaviors. Parent-child relationships play a very important role in social competence for children. The reflection of parent’s behavior and discipline carries out into the child and can have a negative or positive effect in the children’s social…

Even those with two parents are envious, but that does not mean that we the children do not still feel the absence of our father. We still wonder what it would be like to have our father around. Among daughters who never knew their fathers at all, the fantasy is largely the product of the imagination, informed by Hollywood movies and novels (Rosenthal). The youngest child in our family who was still young when our father died had to rely on the things we told her and the films she watched to…

women believe that the abusers should not receive custody of the children. “Second, the advocates for father’s rights argue that fathers have the right to custody of their children, and that children benefit from contact with their father after a divorce (Levin 1999-2000)”. In the event that domestic violence occurs in the family, children’s best interest is often lost due to the mother and father’s rights. “Amy Levin proposed two options that would help safeguard the children’s interest in…