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    Marim Ibrahim Unit 4 Activity 2 The article Excessive Anger, Sadness and Insecurity in the Children of Divorce (COD) published by the Catholic Education Resources Center outlines the effect divorces have on children. As stated in the title, children of divorce often experience anger, sadness alongside paranoia and anxiety. This article focuses more so on teens whose parents are divorced as opposed to infants or toddlers. Many COD feel anger or resent towards their parents for not working hard enough

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    Robert Cahill 11/17/14 Soc 125 Santiago The Effects of Divorce in Children So you 're living the american dream , you have a perfect house , a perfect car , two perfect children and then like the majority of americans the trend of divorce hits your family . Divorce is a daunting word ,it causes heartbreaking change and pain to everyone involved . Many would agree its a child nightmare seeing their two parents separate . Who could think that one single event could carry such importance

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    such as police and attorneys) have a higher than average divorce rate. Just wondering what the main contributing factors are as they relate to career/full time firefighters. In 2009, Drs. McCoy and Aamodt investigated the divorce rates among those married within different occupational groups. They found the divorce rate for firefighters who had been married was 14.1 percent, which was similar to law enforcement personnel (14.5 percent).The divorce rate for firefighters is three times that of the general

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    Effects of Divorce on Children While divorce may reduce strain on a failing marriage, it may cause damaging effects on the children. Often times parents are too concerned on the marriage to notice the effects on children. From the way parents react in front of the children to new marriages all can directly affect the daily lives, and behavior of children. Though, there are ways to mitigate some of the issues that can come with divorce, possibly avoiding some of the effects all together. Unfortunately

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    be married, and make the decision to get a divorce. However, there is more to the process than some people know. In order to help prepare themselves, it behooves those who are considering a divorce to understand the elements that are involved with such cases. Grounds for divorce In general, Texas couples must only believe that their relationships are irreparably damaged in order to obtain a divorce. It is possible, however, for people to ask for a divorce on the grounds that the damage is their spouses’

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    Practical Compromises

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    Practical Compromise During Divorce When people decide to marry, they often go into it believing that it will last a lifetime. Unfortunately, that is not always the case and people find themselves having to face the challenges of divorce. The effects of divorce can be horrendous; therefore, some individuals enlist the help of human services workers to help manage the effects it has on their children as well as external relationships such as friends, grandparents, and other family members.

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    Keisha Culler J. Floyd English 1101 June 16, 2015 Children of divorced parents experience many problems Divorce is always a dreadful incident in an individual life, especially a child’s life. When parents’ get a divorce, the children are not always recognized about the end and dreadful process. This mistake can lead to problems with the child's perception of day to day life. The power divorce has on a family is far more obvious to the children of the family than to the parents. As a child, there

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    Baker, Amy and Maria Verrocchio. “Parental Bonding and Parental Alienation as Correlates of Psychological Maltreatment in Adults in Intact and Non-intact Families.” Journal of Child & Family Studies 24.10 (2015): 11. Academic OneFile. Web. 20 Oct. 2016 A study was conducted on a group of Italian citizens from both intact and non-intact homes to determine if parental alienation existed in the homes, and if the negative effects of the psychological maltreatment outweighed the good parental practices

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    Effects of Divorce on Children Essay

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    In modern society, divorce is common among many married couples. Everywhere you look, a new couple is separating and slowing destroying their family. Divorce is a legal dissolution that allows a couple to freely remarry in the future and occurs when a married couple can no longer handle being in each other’s company (divorce). Their problems result in constant arguments that cannot be resolved. The problems faced within a couple not only affects the two involved in the fight, but also their children’s

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    Divorced Parent Families

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    Some studies which investigated the impact of divorce on preschoolers’attachment under the mediation of parental style (Nair& Murray, 2005), showed that divorced mothers reported significantly higher levels of stress, depression, need for social support, and conflict with their partners . Moreover, mothers from intact families were more likely to use positive parenting styles, such as authoritative style, compared with divorced mothers (Nair& Murray, 2005). As a result, children in the divorced

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