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Impact Of Divorce On Adolescent

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Introduction
How does having divorced parents impact on the wellbeing of an adolescent?

Brief definition of key words in my research project:

- Divorce is the legal dissolution of a marriage by a court or other competent body.
- Wellbeing is the state of being comfortable, healthy, or happy.
- Adolescent is an individual in the process of developing from a child into an adult.

I have selected to do my independent research project on how does having divorced parents impact on the wellbeing of an adolescent in the interest to discover different perspectives and impacts on individuals, as I was raised in a family with divorced parents myself. My research question is relevant to a number of aspects of the CAFS course syllabus. It is relevant …show more content…

I expect to find very useful information such as the mental, social and physical impact on adolescent and any relevant information already existing acquired solely to divorce, so I can conduct a review.

Primary data
Primary data, is data collected first hand, through using methods such as interviews and …show more content…

I will be conducting three interviews from three different perspectives, to gain further knowledge on the impact on indolence from many perspectives. My interview will contain 5 long response questions.

- Questionaries- a set of printed or written questions with a choice of answers, devised for the purposes of a survey or statistical study. My questionaries will be specific to my topic question and will be handed out to those whom have divorced parents or are divorcees themselves, this will help me answer my question and gather information. I will put together 6 multiple choice questions and 4 short answer question which will be handed out to 20 adolescences, and another questionnaire are will be specifically for divorcees on how they think it has impacted their child.

How I will conduct my research:
The primary data collection will be conducted over a number of weeks. This will include questionaries and

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