Divorce In Children

A child suffering emotionally from their parents' divorce could develop new personality traits as coping mechanisms in an attempt to deal with their deep and lasting emotional trauma. Usually, the most common personality traits that children develop in response to the split of their parents are negative. For some children, the divorce of their parents shatters their sense of security, and makes them question their confidence in the parents' abilities make decisions that are truly in their best interest.

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In a Los Angeles Times article Melissa Healy quotes: “Some researchers believe the rise in childhood depression may, in part, reflect changed "environmental factors" in children's' lives -- not just industrial pollutants but changes in the social environments of their schools and families” (Healey) The death of a brother is a bitter change in a family, and in a social spectrum. Holden, coping with it by punching out windows and screaming is justified. His parents sending him to a psychiatrist due to his dealing with grief is not. Kenneth Doka suggests in a Huffington Post article: “at a time when adolescents most strongly base their own identity on their peers, a loss of a peer is likely to be a traumatic event.”

In the article, How absence of a loving father can wreck a child 's life: New study shows relationship with both parents is crucial, by Fiona Macrae, the author talks about how the absence of family love can severely damage a child 's childhood and can even affect their adulthood. This article explains how, “...those rejected in childhood felt more anxious and insecure as well as hostile and aggressive,” because they lacked the father love they needed in their childhood (Macrae 1). If a child was treated poorly and felt unloved when they were a child, how can they successfully proceed life with a happy attitude and interact with society. Relating this with the novel “The Adventure of Huckleberry Finn,” Mark Twain depicts Huck as an adolescent that is lacks a loving father to encourage and teach him. On the other hand, Huck’s father is actually a very abusive and taunting father whom Huck loathes.

These people’s exhaustion may negatively affect the care that is given to the patients. One research study delved into the childhood of the caregivers to determine if the how the caregivers bonded as a child influenced whether or not they would become exhausted. The researchers used surveys to determine that the caregivers who were less secure in their relationships with others did become exhausted when caring for patients with dementia. They recommended that staff be educated about the effects of attachment on burnout (Kokkonen, Cheston, Dallos, & Smart, 2014). Reference Kokkonen, T.-M., Cheston, R. I., Dallos, R., & Smart, C. A. (2014).

Children of undocumented immigrant do not enjoy the benefits of citizenship because of political reason. In the book Forgotten Children by Luis H. Zayas, PhD, is a mental health clinician and researcher, he exams children to present how immigration policy unsettles their rights and harms their mental health leaving lasting psychological trauma. He mentions that many children who are citizens of the United States prefer to stay silent. The children fear their parents might get deported for their illegal status. Virginia is 6-year-old, she is one of the children Zayas examined, he mentions that “Virginia had been silent for many, many months in order to preserve a family secret and keep away the big, complex world that made her feel fragile and

The first is whether abuse has deleterious effects. “In earlier studies, in which samples were nonrepresentative and family ecological factors (such as poverty, marital violence, and family instability) and child biological variables (such as early health problems and temperament) were ignored, findings have been ambiguous. Results from a prospective study of a representative sample of 309 children indicated that physical abuse is indeed a risk factor for later aggressive behavior even when the other ecological and biological factors are known. The second question concerns the processes by which antisocial development occurs in abused children. Abused children tended to acquire deviant patterns of processing social information, and these may mediate the development of aggressive behavior” (Dodge 1990).

However, many of them were fearful of their abuser which caused them distress such as in the case with Lucille. Lucille experience long-term psychological effects from her ex-husband whom she was married to for 16 years. Although Lucille and her husband divorce, she was never free from his abuse. After moving in with her daughter due to health concerns, her husband was her caregiver while her daughter was away. After complaining of the treatment she received from her ex-husband her daughter felt that she needed to “deal with it”.

In this essay we are going to discuss the causes and effects of divorce on children. Divorce is a very painful process for both the children and the parents. We are going to start by looking at the causes of divorce. These causes vary from one family to another therefore we are going to discuss the most common causes. Sharlene (1995 ) states that there are many causes that lead to divorce.

When children are forced out over and over again it makes them feel unwanted or that they did something wrong. Patricia George writes, “Shuttling children off to a strangers home for a period of days or weeks, only to be potentially shuttled off to another home… simply underscores the frightening and traumatic experience of seeing ones family fall apart” (George and Walker). Not only do children have to deal with the constant moving around, they also have to deal with complications such as sibling separation. Sometimes a family isn't always looking to foster or adopt more than one child at at time so social workers tear brothers and sisters apart. In some cases, siblings will never see each other for years or even ever

Abstract In today’s world, divorce may be seen throughout different cultures and ethnicities. Attitudes and behaviors may change in children when they experience parental divorce. It is shown that children living in single-parent families exhibit a low level of education (Raley, Sweeney, & Wondra, 2015). Typically, children live with the mother after parental divorce.

The articles main focus is to examine older youth within the foster care system and their reaction to psychological instability. The different stages of growth throughout the child/children life and what might have been the trigger to offset a change. A lot of mental disabilities are cause from a combination of dramatic factors (sexual assault, abandonment as a child, neglect) drugs, and/or alcohol. The method in which was used to gather data was Diagnostic interview Schedule for DSM-IV.

Emily Hervey, a licensed Clinical Psychologist , in her article "Cultural Transitions During Childhood and Adjustment to College” (2009), argues that a missionary kids past experiences with transitions will affect how they perceive current ones. She supports this claim by first demonstrating that missionary kids adapt to their foreign culture even though it is not their parent’s culture (p. 1-3), then she showed how this can lead to bad experiences when transitioning (p. 1-3), and finally she used statistics to prove that missionary kids who had bad experiences transitioning were more likely to have bad experiences transitioning into college (p. 7). Hervey’s purpose is to convince the reader that bad experiences early on in a missionary kid’s

Although prior problems may also affect the reasons for suicidal ideations of adolescents, it is suspected that factors such as social workers workload, the crowding of the foster homes and the surroundings of the foster homes could possibly play a role in adolescents not receiving the proper help that they need. For instanced, it is noted that the recommended number of cases of social worker should have is seventeen, however in some states social workers could have twice or even three times more cases than the recommended seventeen. Also, 80-90% of foster care cases can be linked back to substance abuse. By knowing this information America, there should be new improvements with the way that substance abuse is treated. If repremations were made pertaining to substance abuse, and the treatment of social workers, the amount of adolescents in foster care would decrease, and the foster care system would in fact better itself due to new strict regulations on how many cases a social worker can handle at a time.

Ellen denied sexual or physical abuse in her past, however I would want to get a clearer picture of the emotional abuse she experienced from her parents, as well as any other prominent details that could be noteworthy in her case. Beidel, Frueh, & Hersen (2014) report that “stressful life events are correlated with slow recovery from depression” (p. 223). Considering how frequently Ellen has felt depressed over her life, assessment of her current and past stressors are crucial to assist in her bipolar II