Sentences with phrase «children than divorce»

High - conflict behavior during divorce may have a more significant effect on children than divorce itself.

With events like the Smart Marriages Conference in Orlando this week, and with all the classes, books, videos, and retreats offered all year «round by those who speak there, there are better options for your children than our divorces or this new single - parent - from - infancy game plan.

Not exact matches

(Hint: I have a Ph.D., have lived in 8 states and spent 5 years abroad, voted Obama, make less than 60K, was born in Utah but left it 21 years ago, have never divorced, and raise three awesome children who you'd want your children to be friends with.)

If you think these ideas are outdated or irrelevant, I suggest you take a look at the damage that has been wrought on society by rampant divorce, abortion, our of wedlock pregnancy, falling birth rates, and a general view that life is NOT sacred, family is NOT important, and that children are more a burden to be avoided than anything.

The cost is more than individual: when multiplied by the over 1.1 million divorces per year — which affect almost 1 million children annually — an enormous cost is piled on society every year.

In his book The Evolution of Desire, evolutionary psychologist David Buss notes, «According to a United Nations study of millions of people in forty - five societies, 39 percent of divorces occur when there are no children, 26 percent when there is only a single child, 19 percent where there are two, and less than 3 percent when there are four or more.»

Trying to explain «corporate divorce» will take more than one or two lawyers and even then would the children of the estranged parents really want to know who did what to whom and why??

If a devoted gay couple wants to raise children together, then you'd think that the children would be better off than those from the single parent, divorced parents households that are common.

Despite the increasing divergence between secular and biblical understandings of marriage, signs of this original plan of God are still evident in the world around us, e.g. the fact that living together before getting married increases rather than decreases the risk of divorce and the fact that marriage is the best place for bringing up children.

The past year has been a hairpin turn for Armstrong: divorcing Kristin, buying another house in Austin a 60 - second walk from the one his three children still live in, falling in love again «way sooner» than he figured he would and now having to leave the kids (the oldest a four - year - old) to train in Europe for two months.

But as research indicates, childfree couples divorce more often than couples who have at least one child, despite numerous studies that indicate marital happiness plummets in the first year or two after the birth of a child and sometimes never quite recoups.

Some men are gathering around isolated issues, like child custody, and they are making changes; there are more custody battles than ever before because more men want more time with their kids after divorce.

But that might have been the problem; childfree couples divorce more often than couples who have at least one child, according to researchers, -LSB-...]

But that might have been the problem; childfree couples divorce more often than couples who have at least one child, according to researchers, despite numerous studies that indicate marital happiness plummets in the first year or two after the birth of a child and sometimes never quite recoups.

It is so bad, that a recent study analyzing children of divorce over a 50 year period by Stanford University demonstrates that children of divorce actually live five years shorter lives than children raised in intact two - parent married families.

No one else has even hinted at childless divorce being any easier than child - full divorce, for lack of a better word.

If the moneyed spouse has been divorced more than once, will payments to previous spouses and / or children reduce the amount of spousal or child support that a third spouse for instance is likely to receive?

In my experience, it seems true that parents want to share more time with their children after divorce than during the marriage — either because they took their family for granted during the marriage or they just hated being home.

Oh yeah, my ex-wife divorced me (the marriage was less than 20 years) and has refused to use a penny of alimony or the money she received from me at the time of the divorce, let alone her own income, for the children.

Some might question if the problem was the fact that it's a second marriage for both, which often has a more dismal divorce record than a first marriage but not always; some second marriages struggle because blending families with young children can be a challenge more than anything else.

On the other hand, it's possible that women are more likely to initiate divorce than men because in the divorce court, especially where children are involved, the odds are in the female's favour.

The Bad News about Divorce and Children Is Worse than We Thought, but the Good News Is Better than We Thought William V. Fabricius Department of Psychology Arizona State University First draft of a paper to be presented at Senator Anne C. Cools Roundtable on Family Dynamics Senate of Canada May 6 — 8, 2011

Being structured and clear after a divorce is much more helpful to kids than compromising your values because your children are going through a tough time.

Children have a harder time getting over divorce than adults.

I would say that being structured and clear after a divorce is much more helpful to kids than compromising your values because your children are going through a tough time.

Divorced dads and men who are in a struggling marriage can be very dedicated to their children and involved in their lives — sometimes more than dads in strong marriages.

Children from divorced homes have more psychological problems than children who lost a parent tChildren from divorced homes have more psychological problems than children who lost a parent tchildren who lost a parent to death.

Adult children of divorce tend to have: lower paying jobs and less college than their parents; unstable father - child relationships; a history of vulnerability to drugs and alcohol in adolescence; fears about commitment and divorce; and negative memories of the legal system that forced custody and visitation.

Children whose parents have divorced are more likely to experience injury, asthma, headaches and speech impediments than children whose parents have remained Children whose parents have divorced are more likely to experience injury, asthma, headaches and speech impediments than children whose parents have remained children whose parents have remained married.

«Intact families can have more stress than divorced ones, contributing to problems in their children,» he says.

Following a divorce, children are fifty percent more likely to develop health problems than two parent families.

Studies from the early 1980's demonstrated that children in situations where their parents had been involved in multiple divorces earned lower grades than their peers and their peers rated them as less pleasant to be around.

Validate your child's successes, criticize their action rather than their person, make time for them and time with their friends, and keep them out of the messy divorce fights.

Mark my words, better get pregnant by yourself than risk losing your children to divorce and when this becomes possible, you'll see me doing it

That is, compared to divorce the children in these families may have fared better growing up in a less - than - perfect married family.

• There were 13 divorces an hour in England and Wales in 2012 • Women were granted 65 % of all divorces • 9,703 men and 6,026 women aged over 60 got divorced • One in seven divorces were granted as a result of adultery • 719 (less than 1 %) divorces were granted because of desertion • The average age at divorce was 45 for men and 42 for women • 9 % of couples divorcing had both been divorced before • 48 % of couples divorcing had at least one child aged under 16 living with the family • It is expected that 42 % of marriages will end in divorce

He is the author of more than a dozen books on child and teen psychology, parenting, divorce, anger management and conflict resolution.

Children whose parents separate or divorce face much more economic instability than their married counterparts, even when support is paid.

In his book When Parents Hurt, Dr. Coleman writes, «Mothers who feel wronged in the marriage or divorce, who believe that mothers are more important than fathers, or who have psychological problems may directly or indirectly interfere with the father's desire to have an ongoing relationship with his children.»

She has more than 85 publications, including Surviving the Breakup: How Children and Parents Cope with Divorce (Basic Books, 1980).

To a child, divorce is much more than a legal matter; this is their entire world being ripped apart and thrown on the ground in pieces.

She has published more than 130 articles and chapters, including a classic book, Surviving the Breakup: How Children and Parents Cope with Divorce (Basic Books, 1980).

Children can often tell when their parents are stressed or depressed and this could be more upsetting to them than the divorce itself.

«More than one million children are affected by divorce each year.

These results also suggest that the adjustment difficulties seen with some children of divorced parents may be due to an interaction between genetic and environmental factors rather than environmental influences alone, as is assumed in many theories of divorce» s effects.

Adult children of divorce are 70 % more likely than their peers from nonfractured families to fear their marriage is suffering.

That might seem like an extreme option, but it's much easier than a divorce, if you're married, or seeing your children go through major struggles without you (or because of your absence).

«Without a sibling to share the burden or ease his pangs, an only child's experience of divorce is significantly higher than other children.

Consequently, few people experience divorce positively, but the one child - one parent may have an easier transition to normalcy than one parent families with many children, due to mother and child retaining more resources.»

«In the first year after divorce, fathers of children age four and under reported that their sense of family well - being plummeted three times more than a man's general wellbeing typically declines when he loses his job.»