The Great Divorce

Title/Topic: Children of Divorce Introduction: Divorce is a process that does irreparable damage to all involved, but most especially to children. Over a million American children endure the divorce of their parents each year (Churchill & Fagan, 2012). Divorce may benefit some individuals in certain cases, but it causes an overall decrease in quality of life and impacts family relationships. Children of divorce sometimes have more trouble with dating, higher expectations of divorce later in…

“Guess what? I [her mother] translated all of our name into Nigerian!” yelled my best friend, Taylor. “Akeira, your name is ‘Ah-kee-ki-doh,’” “Haha, cookie dough, that’s funny. Akeira your name is ‘kurabiye hamuru’ in my language,” said my other friend, Zahra. Taylor repeated her translation and Zahra admitted to believing she said cookie dough, we all like the name and for a while my name was “Cookie Dough,” but of course we shortened it to just Cookie. A new school and new friends led to my…

children. Divorce affects many members of the family, including children. Statistics show that annually more than one million children will go through the process of divorce within their family per year (Bing, Nelson & Wesolowski, 2009). The study reported that 40% of all children will experience parental divorce during their lifetimes (Arkes, 2013). This study illustrates that there are numerous consequences of parental divorce on children. When compared to children from non-divorce households…

after what can sometimes be a nasty divorce. The biggest problem that that comes along with this is the effect it has on the children of said divorce. They are the ones who really feel the blunt force of the situation, and a lot of the times their feelings are not taken into consideration. Many times, we as parents cannot put our personal feelings aside to work together for the sake of the child’s wellbeing. 50% of all North-American children will witness the divorce of their parents. Almost…

Christian Romantic Relational Development among Post-Undergraduate Students: Understanding the Effect of the Social Penetration Theory Introduction Context This research proposal will analyze and explain how the Social Penetration Theory (SPT) manifests itself in the lives of Christian romantic relationships after college. This proposal, focusing on male and female relationships between the ages of 22-30, will exclusively consider Christians who finished their undergraduate education at…

Introduction In this paper, I will analyze the Social Security Amendment (SSA) of 1974. The Social Security Act of 1974, established a state and federal child enforcement program under part D of the title IV of the Social Security Act (Morgan, 2002). This social policy works to address issues of poverty and child welfare. I’m using the Segal and Brzuzy framework for policy analysis to direct my research. This framework has seven major sections: social problem, goal, identification and policy…

Children’s’ wellbeing and adjustment in divorce and marital conflict family setting The society today is quick to warn parents about divorce and the negative implications of divorce for children both short term and long term. However no body tends to be concerned with the influence of marital conflict to the child’s wellbeing or so it seems. Therefore given the negative connotations attached to the child with the parents being divorced, is the child in a significantly better environment just…

Nationally, the divorce rates and remarriage rates are on the rise which reflects how our society changed over time. The hardest part of this interview, sadly, was the fact that I needed to find a couple that has been married for more than 15 years. With the divorce rates up, one of the things that all my friends have in common, are our divorced parents and not all of us keep in contact with our other parent. With this being common throughout today’s society, the value of divorce and marriage…

Marriage is still a good thing Dying young is for lonely people. People have longer life expectancies when they get married, than those who are single or divorced. Statistics show that children from divorced parents experience a significant decrease academically, physically, and future stability in their own relationships.(foryourmarriage) Marriage has health benefits and economic benefits that people are overlooking, and while it can be arduous it is imperative that couples stay together once…

Every year 2.3 million of couples get married but 1.2 get divorce too. It’s too easy to get married that people married just cause and divorce immediately. Marriage should be harder to be obtain because it will make marriages longers, reduce the divorce rate and domestic abuse. If we make marriages harder to obtain , it will result in marriages lasting longer and will truly live up to their “till death do us part” vows. In a research they found “(PREP) strongly suggest that couples can learn…