In the United States alone, hundreds upon hundreds of thousands of families are affected by divorce each year. Divorce is a high-stress process which may affect parent’s abilities to provide for their children. Whether there is lack of support emotionally, mentally, financially, or physically; ...
How does divorce affect family structure? Family: Families are diverse in their composition and they change over time. Many families are forming based on progressive ideals and values, such as deciding to adopt children, not get married, or choosing to remain child free. ...
There are consequences of living big. As middle-class houses have grown larger, two things have happened. First, large houses take time to maintain, so cleaners and other low-wage service workers are required to keep thes...
Are people shaped more by the experiences they have in their families of origin or by individual personality traits like extraversion and openness? This may be one of the oldest questions in psychology, and researchers are still far from a complete answer. However, current evidence suggests ...
By Jackie Printon As a therapist, I’ve had the privilege of working with parents who are contemplating divorce as well as kids who are already adjusting to a split. Parents are usually well-intentioned and try to anticipate divorce and the effects on children, while kids come in after the...
Mediation is the most child-focused of all thedivorce options. Allowing you to make the decisions throughout your divorce or separation that are in your children's best interests. How is that? When as a couple, you and your spouse choose to work with a divorce mediator you're saying: ...
Because children may feel emotional about the move, the school counselor can help them process these feelings while also helping them integrate into the school, Levy says. And if there are other students who also transferred recently, the counselor can put their families in touch so the students...
However, the estimates are quite uncertain, because the confidence intervals become larger as the number of precarious traits increases. Figure 2 Predicted annual probabilities of marrying or dissolving the relationship based on the number of most precarious traits presented by first cohabiting couples,...
Many families in America have parents who both work. Does having two working parents impact the development of a child? Why or why not? Explain the changes in family structure (divorce, remarriage, adoption, health issues, death of family member, etc.): How do grades in school affect studen...
How often have we heard one spouse—during divorce proceedings—state that they never knew that their mate was conducting an extra-marital affair? Neptune's slippery transits bring to mind an event I'd learned about while visiting my family on Long Island, New York, many moons ago. As it ...