Many children are affected by the result of divorce, whether it happened during their young age or adulthood. Witnessing parents break the relationship, living with only one parent and adjusting to going back and forth between two different household, missing one parent on every birthdays, these events shattered their lives tremendously. Divorce introduces a massive change in children life without them having an option to avoid it and realize that it would shape their psychological behavior throughout their life. Even though some children will bounce back from the pain the effects of divorce in children will present and it will persist into their adulthood.
Arkowitz, H., & Lilienfeld, S.O. (2013). Is divorce bad for children?. Scientific
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It helped me gain better understanding on the pro and cons of consequences of divorce in children. I will use this source to contrast my idea on how divorce affects children and adolescent.
Chase-Lansdale, P. L., & Hetherington, E. M. (1990). The impact of divorce on life-span development: Short and long term effects. Life-span development and behavior, 10, 105-150.
Chase-Landsdale , a professor of Human Development and Social Policy from Northwestern University, and Hetherington, a professor of psychology at the University of Virginia focuses on the short term effect implications of divorce for children from the standpoint of a crisis model. Age differences, marital conflict, and altered parenting, are the factors affecting it. They claim that long term adjustment on children is related to age and gender. However, due to the lack of studies, the long term effects remain
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It emphasizes on how divorce would create defects on children’s emotional and psychological upbringing which will have a lifelong consequences and possible greater likelihood for depression during their adulthood. Uphold-Carrier and Utz utilize a middle-aged sample in their analysis to record the long-term effects of parental divorce, exploring how the timing of divorce affects the children’s mental and social well being in their adulthood. Based on their finding, one of the key factors of how the child is affected, depends on the age of the child at the time of divorce. Both authors are reliable with each being a professor at university level. Uphold-Carrier and Utz are professors in department of Psychiatry and Psychology University at