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The Effects on Children in Divorced Families
In America, divorce is a very common, yet complicated topic. ... This paper will address many questions associated with divorced families, such as “Is divorce harmful to children? ... One study involving 13,000 children from the ages of four to young adolescence of both divorced parents and parents that are still married states that most children from divorced families experience difficulty in everyday activities. This study states that children of divorced families have problems with school work, behavioral problems, low self-esteem, problems forming relationships with peers, and don’t get along with parents as well. ...
In collation there was a study done by Mavis Hetherington in 1993 that found that ten percent of boys and girls in families that are still together have high behavioral problems, where as twenty-six percent of boys and thirty- four percent of girls from divorced families have high behavioral problems. ... edu) A few causes of such behavioral problems in children of divorced families are the loss of one full time parental figure, the fact that a single parent home has less economical resource, many changes and stresses are put upon the child, how the parents adjust to the situation, different parental values towards discipline, and conflict between the two parents.
Approximate Word count = 971
Approximate Pages = 3.9
(250 words per page double spaced)
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