William Eddy, L.C.S.W., J.D. draws unflattering but striking parallels
between high conflict divorces and the US political scene.
Not exact matches
The change has produced enormous anxiety,
conflict between the generations, and a fear that India will go the way of the West with its
high divorce rates, broken families, loss of extended support systems, and commercialized libertinism.
Even though Russians think love is the main reason to create a family, family
conflicts between the husband and wife take place and Russia is in top ten countries with the
highest divorce rate in the world.
Just before the election of 2012, Bill Eddy and I wrote about the parallels
between this political polarization and the similar dynamics in
high conflict divorce, in our book, Splitting America: How Politicians, Super PACs and the News Media Mirror High Conflict Divo
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Factors known to influence the security and stability of attachments include poverty; marital violence and
high conflict between parents; and major life changes such as
divorce, death, or the birth of a sibling, which in each instance are associated with more insecure attachments.
«Research indicates that
high levels of continued
conflict between separated and
divorced parents hinders children's normal development.
The authors are always working towards us understanding the link
between high -
conflict divorce and
high -
conflict politics.
The authors then, in a step - by - step method, cleverly make the link
between different personality styles in
high -
conflict divorce and
high conflict politics (e.g. narcissistic personality disorders morph into narcissistic leaders).
The authors present their plans for this ambitious undertaking by first establishing the similarities
between high -
conflict divorce and
high -
conflict politics.
The two - page chart, the «Similarity of
High -
Conflict Divorce and Elections», shows in detail the parallels
between the two systems.
In that book, we drew parallels
between the polarizations in politics that were rampant prior to and throughout that election cycle, and
high conflict divorce.
My previous study published in the Journal of
Divorce and Remarriage concluded that lack of access to both parents and
high conflict between them contributed to low self - esteem in young women raised in
divorced homes.
For
high -
conflict couples, even the average mediated or collaborative
divorce can cost
between $ 35,000 - $ 45,000 — this is still approximately 1/3 of the cost of the average litigated
divorce for a couple that is not
high conflict.
Johnston and Campbell's research on
divorce families in
high conflict for three years or more found a measurable degree of alignment
between children and one parent in 35 percent to 40 percent of children from - 7 to 14 years of age (6).
looked at whether it was their parent's
divorce, orthe
high conflict between them, that led to the adult children
divorcing
While this study shows an association
between high -
conflict childhoods and
divorces in adulthood, children who grow up in families with a lot of
conflict may well grow up to have happy marriages themselves.
In Victoria, children Caught in the Middle
between parents in a
high -
conflict divorce, can attend free counselling sessions.
In this study there was strong support for a link
between crucial variables to the psychological climate of the
divorced families (e.g., parental loyalty
conflict, low caring in terms of emotional coldness, indifference, neglect, and
high control in terms of overprotection, intrusion, excessive contact, infantilization, and prevention of independent behavior), self - esteem and well - being in adulthood.