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Divorce Rate

a substantial number of divorces that would not have occurred otherwise" (Why Divorce Rates Increased, 2008). This is something th...

Divorce: Causes and Impacts

no longer exists, or at the very least has shrank almost to the point of non-existence. We simply do not hold ourselves accountab...

C.S. Lewis/The Great Divorce

pretensions that keep them in Hell, and stay in Heaven, that is, not to get back on the bus for the return trip. Lewis reveals l...

Erikson's Stages - Self-Analysis

graduations at about age 18, an individual goes on to higher education, further training or right out to the work world. The focus...

Does Divorce or Disruption in Family Structure During Adolescence Have a Detrimental Effect on Development?

Discussion Parents serve, either consciously or unconsciously as role models for their children. Gender roles develop in p...

Primary Prevention Strategy Against Divorce

todays marriages. Those factors are money and gender expectations. The literature has recognized the fact that gender roles in s...

Massachusetts and Divorce Inherited Property Division

a state according to the specific facts surrounding the case. Considerations regarding how to distribute inheritances can be affe...

Nuclear Families versus Divorced Families

have been cited for pulling a gun or a knife on someone and children in gangs were more likely to come from single parent househol...

Review of the Article 'Predictors of Divorce Adjustment'

data from a study called Marital Instability Over the Life Course (Booth, Amato, Johnson & Edwards, 1998 as cited in Wang & Amato,...

Effects of Stress

stress, which causes fluctuating levels of neuro-endocrine responses (Taylor, Repetti and Seeman, 1997). To understand this concep...

Understanding Contemporary Families

never been enacted (Young, 2001, p. 27). Young, predictably, castigates Crittenden, saying that what she is proposing is "entitle...

The Relationship Between Divorce and Poverty

more household bills, but legal bills also enter the picture. There are some cases where a woman will move in with a boyfriend or ...

Absentee Parents and Cultural Differences Connection

telling their high schoolers that they are beautiful, yet this is one of the major characteristics reinforced by the parents. Why ...

Divorce Cases in New York and Women's Advantage

reason given for the divorce. This is something that can coerce people into lying and make the break up more difficult. In some wa...

Philosophy of Wellness and Personal Relationships

institution of marriage, and the influence that family structures, including relationship triangles, have on individuals. Because...

A Case Study of Dependency Exemptions in Cases of Joint Custody

of the person, relationship or member of the household, gross income, joint system, citizen/residency. The support test, a...

Three Studies on Divorce

black mothers evidenced several advantages in regards to coping as compared to white mothers; however five years later, the white ...

Parenting Changes

It does not work. Consider: since the Baby Boomers changed the institutions of work and parenting, divorce has soared and there ar...

Addressing Family Topics

to make it clear that they are not attempting to replace the biological parent, and, furthermore, that they should be accepting of...

Functioning of a Single Parent Household

by the therapeutic community. The term "nuclear family" brings to mind the American concept of the ideal family, of the mot...

Bonds of Matrimony and Why They Unravel So Easily Today

marriages to lose many of the foundations that essentially keep a marriage together. The Unraveling of Marriages People who lo...

Children Affected by Divorce and Therapeutic Applications

of other therapeutic approaches are important as well. Of foremost consideration in treating the impacts of divorce is eval...

Divorce and Judaism

of sorts so that a divorce could not be granted simply and carelessly. "If there was a certificate, there should also be grounds f...

Overview of UK Family Law

made. The court also has the power to order a lump sum payment of not more than ?1,000 (Cretney and Mason, 1998). If...

Social Problems and Children from Broken Homes

counterparts, in that it relates to emotions the students are only just beginning to cultivate. Indeed, college-aged children, wh...

Children and Divorce

Bennetts, 2001). The debate seems to focus on how long the effects of divorce impact children (Jeynes, 2001). In addition, there a...

Adolescent Girls' Sexuality and the Impact of Divorce

have noted that sexual activity among girls from single-parent homes is greater than among those who live in "blended" families. G...

Norms and Divorce

in raising children. And, we cannot assume that the divorce rate today, though statistically higher than in the past, is a new thi...

Children's Depression and the Impact of Divorce

What has been found is that in "general most young people do not suffer long term consequences after their parents divorce in term...

Fathers' Importance

and companionship. Although it is true that roles for men and women have changed to some extent, that does not mean that fathers a...