Essays on Divorcing

Introduction

Children raised in two-parent families have more advantages compared to their peers from divorced families. The family structure has changed such that almost half of the marriages end up in divorce. Children often develop emotional, behavioral and social problems due to the divorce cases. Most of these children also suffer from aggression and poor academic performance. It is obvious that children are the innocent victims of divorce. The question is; how can the well-being of children from divorced families be protected? The purpose of this research is to find ways through which children from divorced families can be assisted.

Article; Psychological perspectives

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Divorce has become a common occurrence in the society today, and many individuals who take the extreme step of divorcing appear to have lost sight of the values and the vows that are associated with the institution of marriage. Many parents with growing children at home opt for divorce without realizing the damaging effects their one-time decision may have on the lives of their children. Even though divorce may be a relief to both the partners in marriage who find no further meaning in living together, it definitely is a life-transforming experience to their innocent children. For instance, after ...

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This article discusses divorce in Texas, beginning with how Texas compares with other U.S. States in the percentages of divorces. Having assessed the position of Texas in the divorce “league tables” the article also reviews the divorce processes and applicable laws and how the situation differs in details from the equivalent procedures and legislation in other U.S. States.

Divorce Statistics

The article “Divorce Statistics and Divorce Rate in the USA” (5 April 2012) provides a wealth of statistics about divorce in the USA, notably that divorce rates in this country are high, ranging from 41 to 50 percent for first marriages and ...

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Children’s psychological effects of divorce seem devastating, and most divorcing couples are totally oblivious of how much their private conflicts have lasting effects on their children’s psychology. Unfortunately, most parents do not stop to think of the consequences of treating their future ex-spouses inappropriately. In addition, they do not fathom their perpetual behavior of maligning them in the presence of their children. These adolescents or children undergo serious manipulation from their parents for financial, social, and personal reasons (Ogloff & Schuller, 2000). It is evident that children from divorced families have the imposition of psychological problem challenges than ...

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The term divorce is defined as the cancellation or termination of marriage or union between two people. Marriage is a sacred union between two individuals. The fact that marriage is a sacred union that is why some countries do not allow divorce a good example of these countries are the Vatican City and also the Philippines. In the Philippines, the only thing they offer to terminate marriage is annulments. When people get divorced, they begin to have adjustment problems immediately after it. There are many reasons that would make one to have adjustment problems after divorce. The major reasons are the fact ...

Doctors, Patients and the Affordable Healthcare Act- Healthcare.gov- October 13

This is a rhetorical analysis that entails a healthcare ad in support of the Affordable Healthcare Act and the subsequent healthcare program otherwise dubbed the Obamacare. This paper shall apply the Aristotelian Analysis in discussing the advertisement. The advert is deliberately set within the hospital confines. This brings out to the target audience, the program’s critical objective. In the hospital setup, the characters are the patients, their relatives and the medical personnel. The fact that it runs within the hospital environment brings out its main objective, that is, improve medical care and to get a better healthcare system. The sceneries ...

It is estimated in the website of the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) that for every 1000 marriages, 6.8 or almost 7 marriages will end in divorce. It also has been determined that the leading causes of divorce are: lower income, marrying at a young age, and not having any religious affiliation for one or both the married couple. Lower Income As mentioned in the website of About.com, researchers have determined that those couples making above $ 50,000 annually have a lower chance of ending their marriage. Having problems coping with the finances of running a household can be stressful. This ...

I will remember that moment always. I had just come home from a really enjoyable sports practice session, feeling good about life in general and looking forward to the rest of the weekend. I knew something was wrong when my Mom said we needed to talk, just by the expression on her face. She was all red around her eyes; I could see she’d been crying. My heart sank, and my buoyant mood was shattered. Then she told me that her and my Dad had decided to separate and would probably divorce. I realized in that moment that ...

Abstract

The last few decades have seen significant judicial and legal changes related to divorce and child custody. The aim of this paper is to look at the child custody issues related to a particular case and how American Psychological Association’s Guidelines for Child Custody Evaluations can help to resolve those issues. In most cases, there is little empirical evidence to support the methods used by professionals in resolving child custody disputes in the court. The child custody evaluations have become more comprehensive during the past decade. Different and numerous methods of data gathering are used to raise the reliability ...

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The problem of divorce has been a major issue not only in the United States but the world over with more and more cases of divorce happening on a daily basis. More and more people are leaving their life partners and becoming single with the trend not showing signs of slowing down any time soon. Here in the United States researchers have found out that between 40%-50% of all first marriages are likely to end in divorce while up to 60% of all second marriages also face the possibility of ending in divorce (Saluter, 1992). This issue of divorce has ...

When two partners decide to get married none of them anticipates a divorce at some point. However, due to various circumstances and challenges in the marriage, divorce becomes unavoidable. Divorce, therefore, is generally understood as the dissolution of a marriage union, whereby two partners of a marriage decide to go their own separate ways after agreeing to do so. It may be out of either partner’s own volition or from both of them. It occurs in the most extreme of circumstances where the differences between the partners are irreconcilable. The process of divorce can be done legally in court, by ...

In legal parlance, divorce is the process of matrimony dissolution or termination that culminates in separation of fiancées. Reasons for divorce to take place are multiple, with marital breach resulting from infidelity, jealousy, financial instability and other contributing factors. Never a pleasant process, divorce does have consequences for both fiancées and their children, if born in wedlock. Children are virtually forced into watching their once loving parents battling each other during legal proceedings, court hearings, and custody fights over who will raise them and who will pay alimony, to say nothing of contractual demands, rising from clauses provided ...

Divorce is defined as the legal termination of a marriage (U.S. National Library of Medicine). According to the United Nations’ Department of Economic and Social Affairs (2008), the World Marriage Data showcases an increase in the annual number of divorces. Indicatively, Australia, the United States and the United Kingdom are some of the global countries with the highest divorce rates, with 2.5, 3.7 and 2.4 divorces per thousand marriages respectively (United Nations). Also, marriage and divorce statistics released from the European Commission (2012), there has been a reduction of marriages in the European Union countries, by about 36 percent, from approximately ...

Sociology is the research man social behavior and how it came about, organization, development, and institutions. As a social science, it employs different methods of critical analysis and empirical investigation to create some knowledge on human’s social structure, social actions, and functions. This paper explores the article - three critical tech issues for divorcing couples to address- by Elizabeth Harper giving a well-detailed reaction. It is peer logic that technology has an impact in our lives in different ways- either positively or negatively. Elizabeth has point when she argues that the technology we rely on can make those in a ...

Introduction

The rate of divorce has increased over the years. Research indicates that for every three marriages that take place in today’s society, one of them ends in divorce (American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 2011). Furthermore, the majority of the families that divorce have children. Consequently, divorce causes various impacts on children depending on how they perceive it and what kind of life they lead after it occurs in comparison with the past. Some children often take the blame on themselves for being responsible for their parents’ divorce and this will have devastating impact on their lives. Mostly, ...