Divorce Effects On Children

The Effects of Divorce on Children; specifically focusing on age and gender
When one is looking at divorce and its affects, many different approaches can be taken, and many different ideas can be thought of. Within the secondary research, focus is kept on the affects of divorce, which type is worse, methods of coping and a small focus on gender. The primary research focuses mainly on what role gender plays in a child's adaptation of their parent's divorce, gender of the child, gender of most exposure, and gender of primary care-giving parent. There were two separate hypothesis' that were being proved during the entire research process; one for the secondary research and one for primary. The first hypothesis, for the secondary research
And no matter how justified the reason for the divorce, parents need to understand their responsibility to minimize the impact on them and make this major change in their lives as easy as is humanly possible." (Parker, 2005). The attention needs to be brought to divorce and children. Because divorce is such a common activity, it is accepted by society as such. Society as a whole is seeing the events for face value and not looking deeper. However, that's what the problem is; when one looks deeper and one sees all affected by a divorce, then they can see who is really troubled by this issue which of course turns out to be the children of the divorcing
Were relationships affected with the parental unit of the opposite sex? Or was this resentment of the opposite sex permanent? The primary research focused on bringing the secondary research to life, as well as trying to bring new information for consideration. The following are the results of the primary research surveys; they were completed by Robert Bateman students, who are all children of divorce. Every participant was a child of divorce, as well as having friends with single or remarried parents; The rate of divorce is so high now, that every single person that was asked could think of multiple people that they knew personally who have been directly affected by divorce. Many divorced parents can take comfort in the fact that most kids believe that they are not responsible for their parents divorce, 67% of boy and 74% if girls said that they felt as thought the break-up had nothing to do with them. The remaining 33% of boy and 26% of girls said they felt they had something to do with the spilt, however no one said that they were responsible for everything. Some findings made is evident that the two genders handle this issue very differently, an overwhelming 87% of boys said that they were not held back in anyway, while only 33% said they weren't. 13% of boys were held back slightly, while a large