How Divorce Is Affected Much More Significantly Than Those From Two Parent Families

Divorce is one of many controversial subjects in family and human development research. What inspired me to critically analyze the article “Does Divorce Create Long-Term Negative Effects for Children?” is the challenge it would be for me to put my bias aside considering I am from a divorced home. After reading the article and analyzing it over and over, I can’t help but think that the writer answering “YES” to this controversial question overlooked many variables and over generalized his findings and research. With Zinsmeister overgeneralizing his research, not considering enough alternate explanations for long-term negative effects divorce, and his lack of relevant information needed to assess reliability and validity are why I find this article to be insightful but not accurate and hope to show why.

Each year as families are progressing to be built there are more familes decreasing. The online database “The Effects of Divorce In America” connects to how many children will grow to see there parents divorce before the age of 18. “Mounting evidence in social science journals demonstrates that the devastating physical, emotional, and financial effects that divorce is having on these children will last well into adulthood and affect future generations”. This problem that is occurring with children being involved in divorces is causing the world to be kept at a low with violence and education. Which is allowing behavioral effects and the rate of divorces to be kept at a high. With the lowering of children having families also only “42 percent of children aged 14 to 18 live in a “First Marriage” family”. Having such high rates with divorces, child influence is a major factor when separating.

If two people love each other enough to get married, and together choose to form a lifelong commitment, why are so many of these marriages ending? What does marriage mean to people nowadays and why do people decide to get married? Records show us that people have been getting married for as long as the earliest recorded history. There are many benefits for couples who have a successful marriage. When a marriage begins to fail it is usually due to a couple's inability to communicate, lack of a common goal, or a trust vs. mistrust issue; therefore, more so than not, these types of situations will ultimately result in a divorce. The most frequently asked question over the last two decades has been, “Does divorce effect children and how

Divorce is comparable to an epidemic since it has been filtering through many societies at an increasingly alarming rate. According to the most current statistic, there are more than 2.1 million marriages in the United States (“Children of Divorced Parents”). Out of those, almost half end in divorce. Divorce nowadays is extremely common. In fact, in America there is one divorce every thirty-six seconds (National Marriage and Divorce Rate Trends”). Each year over a million American children suffer from the divorce of their parents (Amato 24-26). Even though it might be shown to benefit some individuals in their own personal case, for the majority it causes a decrease in an individual’s life and puts many people “on a downward trajectory from which they might never fully recover” (Amato). Over long term, the United States divorce rate has been on a rise since 1980, which means more children being affected (Macionis). These children that are affected are faced by emotions of anger, confusion and even fear. These emotions affect their academic performance, social interactions, behavior, self-esteem and other negative effects. This literature review is important in calling attention on the current research studying impacts of divorce on children. The topic of divorce is a wide-ranging topic. However, this particular literature review focuses only on the effects that divorce has on children. The data presented in this paper is collected from

The topic of divorce, for many decades, has been a topic that fell into the domain of taboo. In more recent years, society within the united states has brought the topic into the limelight by desensitizing the term. Thus, the divorce rates in the US have went up. However, a divorce has both positive and negative implications. Also, there have been backlashes against divorce, but there has also been a positive feedback system employed to aid in the process that surround divorce. The partitioning between the political parties can be further exemplified in topic of divorce.

Many families in the United States have or know someone who has been through a divorce. The reason for this is because divorce has almost become a normal occurrence in our society. According to the textbook Marriages and Families, Diversity and Change Seventh Edition “1 million married couples in the United States divorce each year.” (M. Schwartz, B. Scott, 2012, p. 390) In early America divorce was almost non-existent, that is not the case in our recent day and age. Unfortunately, in today’s society there are many factors that have contributed destroying marriages, one example being social media. Sadly, the couple divorcing aren’t the only ones affected by divorce. “A recent student of 13 European countries, Canada, and the United States found that the divorce risk of children of divorced parents is on average about twice that of children of non-divorced parents.” (Hong, Galher, and Bernhardt. 2006) Even though divorce rates have continuously been rising we do have many resources available to help save marriages instead of just giving up on the entire sanctity that marriage is supposed to represent.

Divorce is a huge issue that has affected many Americans. We as a nation have been experiencing a crisis. It’s said that over 50% of all marriages will end in divorce. Why is this? When this trend towards divorce did do began. In this paper we will be going briefly over the cause of the rise in divorce, as well taking a look at the divorce rate among evangelicals that are active in the church. We will then conclude with what the bible says about the topic. Through this paper I hope we can gain a better understanding why divorce has infiltrated our countries culture, the number of people getting a divorce, and what the bible has to say about divorce.

Nowadays, marriage and divorce are taking very lightly by people not being aware of the importance following those events, especially the impact on children. Single parent family also known as a lone parent is when a parent lives with dependent children, without a partner (Encyclopedia, 2003). The United Kingdom has a low rate of divorce

In the last two decades divorce has increased substantially leaving couples single and families broken. Divorce is the reality for many families as there is an increase in divorce rates, cohabitation rates, and the number of children raised in step and single marital families. Divorce cannot be overlooked as it negatively affects and impacts youngsters for the rest of their lives. Although it is the decision between two parents’s children are hurt the most in the process. The concept of divorce is extremely difficult for children to understand as there are many unanswered questions and uncertainties. “Will my mom or dad remarry and who will I live with?” are concerns children express while going through divorce. Many

Roseanne Barr, a famous comedienne, was once quoted saying “Take this marriage thing seriously—it has to last all the way to the divorce”. Over a lifetime, between 43 percent and 46 percent of American marriages end in divorce (Schoen and Canudas-Romo, 2006). While the conflict continues to affect the former husband and wife, little to no care is shown to how it negatively affects their children from childhood through adulthood. Divorced parents get so caught up in their own drama that it becomes too much to deal with the stress of raising a child while dealing with their own emotional stress. This can cause some of these children to be neglected by their parents which forces them to learn how to grow up on their own. After years of witnessing the way their parents handled their relationships, many children with divorced parents grow up to emulate relationship patterns similar to their parents which can be destructive such as cheating on their partners, neglecting their partners, and causing conflict in their relationships. There are many young adults in the church today that do not understand how to properly honor their relationships the way God intended us to. It is the church’s duty to educate people on not only how to have a successful relationship with God, but also how to have a successful

Imagine a teenage boy, completely happy with a good life and a family that he is close to. He has his own place in the family and a set daily routine that has been in place for over a decade. Now imagine something ripping that family apart. His daily life became anything but routine. Everything changed: his living arrangements, his family’s financial situation, and his security. In America, we call that divorce. According to the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, “One out of every two marriages today ends in divorce and many divorcing families include children.” “Only 42 percent of children aged 14 to 18 live in a “first marriage” family and intact two-parent married

Divorce affects family members in many different ways, both positive and negative. While many children can foster healthy relationships post-divorce, some may experience challenges maintaining future relationships after dealing with their parents ' divorce. How can parent do this to their child? One of the most important thing is to teach your child about building a relationship so they can be positive and can have positive thinking about getting married to have a family on their and work things out with their partner in a positive way. A child to be involved in a parent 's relationship is a way to express their feelings. Or so they can insure they don’t have anxiety when they are older. “According to Dr. John Duffy, Chicago-based psychotherapist and author of "The Available Parent," children of divorce often focus too much on failed relationships and assume they will experience the same fate. Duffy suggests that parents be clear that they believe in marriage and stress to their children that it 's worth the risk to experience a close relationship”. A healthy relationship is built by using trust children throughout the world of divorced parents have a tendency they struggle with trust. When working through their own relationship challenges, especially if they have witnessed a breakdown of trust between their own parents. According to Walfish, these trust issues carry over into their future relationships. "I 've treated many teenage girls whose fathers cheated, had an

Divorce is defined as “the formal dissolution of marriage” (Collins, 1978, p. 1). Nearly half of marriages end in divorce. There could be various reasons as to why a relationship diminishes. These reasons could include premarital cohabitation or in other words living together before marriage, marrying at a young age, and finally the presence of children. All three of these reasons are said to be the most significant of circumstances that lead to the end of relationships. To better understand the reasons of divorce, the text discusses 5 different types of marriages. Conflict habituated marriages, devitalized marriages, passive

Divorce is a plague that is destroying numerous families across the United States of America. Sadly, when husbands and wives divorce, the children are often caught directly in the middle. Throughout the years divorce has been becoming more and more common. In the 1920's it was a rare find to know a person whom had been divorced, today it is a rarity not to know of one who has been, or will be divorced. Divorce has numerous effects on the structures of families, and many devastating effects on the children that must experience it, although sometimes necessary, divorce radically changes the lives of adolescents and adults alike.

Divorce is a psychosocial problem and a common phenomenon in all societies, and it seems that it is getting more prevalent in our society in the modern age. Divorce is the "worst Halal" for what consequent of negative consequences on the family and the increasment of enmity and hatred and the bad effect on children and the other psycho and sociological dilemmas like mental disorders and deviant behavior to crime and so on.