b. Long-term 1. Are there long-term effects of divorce on children? The majority of children whose parents divorced are not distinguishable from their peers whose parents remained married in the longer term p. 222 – 75-80% of children and young adults do not suffer from major psychological problems, including depression; have achieved their education and career goals; and retain close ties to their families. They enjoy intimate relationships, have not divorced, and do not appear to be scarred with immutable negative effects from divorce p. 222 – Amato (1999) estimated that approximately 42% of young adults from divorced families in his study had well-being scores above the average of young adults from non-divorced families. Longer-term outcomes are dependent upon many circumstances: adjustment prior to separation, the quality of parenting they received before and after the divorce, the amount of conflict and violence between parents that they experienced during marriage and after divorce 2. Some studies suggest that there’s high negative impact of divorce on children. Why? What are Kelly and Emery’s critique of such research? p. 223-224 – - studies done on clinical groups people who sought out professional – help after divorce - painful memories do not mean long-term damage 2 What impact this divorce research have on policy or intervention programs? Is it – influencing the operation of A Center for Grieving Children, for example? Is it influencing the way that your service site delivers services to its clients? If so, how? - p. 227 Reading 18 The Modern American Stepfamily: Problems and Possibilities Mason 1 What do we know about step-families? – a. contact with fathers p. 235 – b. Size p. 235 – c. parenting p. 236 – d. age of children at time of remarriage matters p. 236 – e. divorce in step-families at 25% of the time within 5 years of remarriage p. 237 – – f. not much difference in child well-being in step and biological families p. 237 – g. remarriage and formation of step-families helps to increase the income of single-moms more than three-fold p. 237 – h. most step-parent scenario p. 238 “successful” –
b. Long-term 1. Are there long-term effects of divorce on children? The majority of children whose parents divorced are not distinguishable from their peers whose parents remained married in the longer term – p. 222 75-80% of children and young adults do not suffer from major psychological problems, including depression; have achieved their education and career goals; and retain close ties to their families. They enjoy intimate relationships, have not divorced, and do not appear to be scarred with immutable negative effects from divorce – p. 222 Amato (1999) estimated that approximately 42% of young adults from divorced families in his study had well-being scores above the average of young adults from non-divorced families. Longer-term outcomes are dependent upon many circumstances: adjustment prior to separation, the quality of parenting they received before and after the divorce, the amount of conflict and violence between parents that they experienced during marriage and after divorce 2. Some studies suggest that there’s high negative impact of divorce on children. Why? What are Kelly and Emery’s critique of such research? – p. 223-224 - studies done on clinical groups – people who sought out professional help after divorce - painful memories do not mean long-term damage 2 – What impact this divorce research have on policy or intervention programs? Is it influencing the operation of A Center for Grieving Children, for example? Is it influencing the way that your service site delivers services to its clients? If so, how? - p. 227 Reading 18 The Modern American Stepfamily: Problems and Possibilities Mason 1 – What do we know about step-families? a. contact with fathers – p. 235 b. Size – p. 235 c. parenting – p. 236 d. age of children at time of remarriage matters – p. 236 e. divorce in step-families – at 25% of the time within 5 years of remarriage – p. 237 f. not much difference in child well-being in step and biological families – p. 237 g. remarriage and formation of step-families helps to increase the income of single-moms more than three-fold – p. 237 h. most “successful” step-parent scenario – p. 238
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