Sentences with phrase «many children with divorcing parents»

«There is an accumulating body of knowledge based on many studies that shows only minor differences between children of divorce and those from intact families, and that the great majority of children with divorced parents reach adulthood to lead reasonably fulfilling lives.»

There are lots of children with divorced parents who grow up have strong relationships and good marriages.

The Tories want to reduce support to children with divorced parents, so it can reward those who live in domestic bliss.

Parental Alienation is a disorder found in many children with divorcing parents.

The courts try to minimize the emotional impact of parental arrangements on children with divorcing parents.

In a more recent meta - analysis, based on sixty - seven studies conducted during the 1990s, I again found that children with divorced parents, on average, scored significantly lower on various measures of wellbeing than did children with continuously married parents.6 As before, the differences between the two groups were modest rather than large.

Forty - three percent of children grow up in fatherless homes, and 75 percent of children with divorced parents live with their mother.

In general, these studies found that children in high - conflict households experience many of the same problems as do children with divorced parents.

During the first year of the study, the children with divorced parents exhibited more behavioral and emotional problems than did the children with continuously married parents.

Correspondingly, some children with divorced parents cope well, perhaps because their parents are able to separate amicably and engage in cooperative co-parenting following marital dissolution.

Nevertheless, like children with divorced parents, children who grow up with a single parent because they were born out of wedlock are more likely than children living with continuously married parents to experience a variety of cognitive, emotional, and behavioral problems.

Two years after divorce, however, children with divorced parents no longer exhibited an elevated number of problems (although a few difficulties lingered for boys).

Children who experienced a parent's death, however, scored significantly higher on several measures of well - being than did children with divorced parents.19 McLanahan and Sandefur found that children with a deceased parent were no more likely than children with continuously married parents to drop out of high school.

Nevertheless, the more recent meta - analyses revealed that children with divorced parents continued to have lower average levels of cognitive, social, and emotional well - being, even in a decade in which divorce had become common and widely accepted.

However, the judge, in his discretion, could invalidate the foster adoption if he finds that placing the child with the divorcing parents would not be in the child's best interests.

In this earlier study, behavior traits were ranked in children with divorced parents and observed negative behaviors.

The debate over how divorce affects children has long been polarized, with many researchers focusing on statistical data emphasizing that most children with divorced parents do fine in life, while many clinicians emphasize the emotional distress that many of the children feel.

The adjustment of children with divorced parents: a risk and resiliency perspective.

The reason for this is, as noted, that children with divorced parents previously were more likely to have well - educated parents from higher social strata and, due to this, achieved relatively well in school.

When divorce spreads to larger parts of the population, and motives for divorce alter (de Graaf and Kalmijn 2006b), it seems unlikely that children with divorced parents, born one hundred years apart, share experiences entirely.

Not exact matches

And when the couple goes to divorce, that lack of rights can stand in the way of the nonlegal parent continuing a relationship with the child.

Divorced parents can use life insurance to secure the financial future of their child as part of a divorce settlement with child support.

The groundbreaking work that Daniel Patrick Moynihan did in 1965, on the black family, is an example — along with the critical research of psychologist Judith Wallerstein over several decades on the impact of divorce on children; Barbara Dafoe Whitehead's well - known work on the outcomes of single parenthood for children; Sara McLanahan and Gary Sandefur's seminal book, Growing Up with a Single Parent; and David Blankenhorn's Fatherless America, another lengthy summarization of the bad empirical news about family breakup.

Among them are the rights to: bullet joint parenting; bullet joint adoption; bullet joint foster care, custody, and visitation (including non-biological parents); bullet status as next - of - kin for hospital visits and medical decisions where one partner is too ill to be competent; bullet joint insurance policies for home, auto and health; bullet dissolution and divorce protections such as community property and child support; bullet immigration and residency for partners from other countries; bullet inheritance automatically in the absence of a will; bullet joint leases with automatic renewal rights in the event one partner dies or leaves the house or apartment; bullet inheritance of jointly - owned real and personal property through the right of survivorship (which avoids the time and expense and taxes in probate); bullet benefits such as annuities, pension plans, Social Security, and Medicare; bullet spousal exemptions to property tax increases upon the death of one partner who is a co-owner of the home; bullet veterans» discounts on medical care, education, and home loans; joint filing of tax returns; bullet joint filing of customs claims when traveling; bullet wrongful death benefits for a surviving partner and children; bullet bereavement or sick leave to care for a partner or child; bullet decision - making power with respect to whether a deceased partner will be cremated or not and where to bury him or her; bullet crime victims» recovery benefits; bullet loss of consortium tort benefits; bullet domestic violence protection orders; bullet judicial protections and evidentiary immunity; bullet and more...

As children living in the aftermath of divorce, we struggle deeply with the inability to forgive the parents that abused us, abandoned us, and alienated us.

If you're a single parent because of divorce, give your children ample opportunity to continue or increase their relationship with your ex-spouse.

In contrast, a fair comparison would have matched up children of same - s3x parents with children of heteros3xual parents who looked otherwise similar — no extra divorces, no extra separations, no extra time in foster care for the kids, said Gary Gates, a researcher at the Williams Inst itute, a s3xual orientation policy think tank at the University of California, Los Angeles.

It is not the will of God that children suffer from hunger and malnutrition and grow up in unsanitary slums with lack of proper education, that persons because of the color of their skin are debarred from schools, hospitals, employment, or housing projects; that persons are denied other basic human rights; that personalities and homes are broken through drink and that great numbers die on highways through drunken driving; that marriage vows are often taken lightly and that easy divorces shatter home after home and leave children the pawns of the parents» selfishness.

Because needy children deserve support no matter who raises them, the state, the business community and the law should support them wherever they are located — whether with single, married, divorced, cohabiting, same - sex or foster parents.

Although many children adapt to both divorce and living with single parents, life for them is on the whole more difficult.

Some Protestant leaders are striving to broaden the church's ministry to include the growing plurality of family forms — to include as coequals with the intact nuclear family all single - parent families, the divorced and remarried, blended families, childless couples, unmarried couples living together, and gay and lesbian couples with or without children.

Her book is based on a survey of 1,500 young adults which allowed her to compare the experiences of children of divorced parents with the experiences of children of married parents.

While the picture is of a very definite increase in care - taking by fathers in two parent families, there is another group of fathers who do not live with their children through separation / divorce, or who have never lived with them, although many of these are co-resident with other men's children (Radhakrishna et al, 2001).

What I do know is that both of my children, one whom never experienced the CIO method, and one who may will be in align with the rest of my family as adults based on our all around parental methods and regardless of whether one CIO or not: Educated at the graduate degree level or higher, married with NO divorces, able to afford to maintain themselves and family with no outside financial help, respectful, grateful to our parents, loving, kind, compassionate, often volunteering and donating our time to numerous charities, RESPONSIBLE and ACCOUNTABLE for all of our actions, independent, close to each other and our friends and most importantly HAPPY!

And parents of children with special needs or who have cancer often end up divorced.

When Bowman ran a small group for children with recently separated or divorced parents, she used a rain - and - sun analogy by asking about the positives and negatives of the new family structure.

Perhaps not; while about 15 percent to 45 percent of first marriages end in divorce about 60 percent to 80 percent of second marriages end in divorce (although numbers vary on how many of those second marriages are to the former spouse or a different one with assorted children from different parents all trying to live happily a la «The Brady Bunch» under one roof).

With children bearing such a big part of the burden of their parents» divorce, a parent needs to be able to discern when their child is having emotional challenges during and after the divorce process.

Many single parents feel so guilty after putting the kids through a divorce that they try to avoid being at odds with their children even for a few minutes.

Beginning in the 70's, children reported concerns about marital conflict and divorce — about a parent leaving, about with whom they would live, and having to choose between parents.

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.

Here is the reality of my divorce: Despite the fact that the court appointed custody evaluator ruled parenting during the marriage was joint, a vocational evaluation that concluded my ex-wife could make just as much money as me, joint custody of the children post marriage (although in reality they were with me much more often), pretty good evidence my ex-wife committed fraud and perjury and absolute evidence her lawyer maliciously lied in court, I am required by the court to pay her a massive amount of alimony until he day I die.

Others often struggle with having to care for an aging estranged parent and perhaps aging stepparents with whom they may or may not have been close, says Elizabeth Marquardt, director of the Center for Marriage and Families at the Institute for American Values and author of Between Two Worlds: The Inner Lives of Children of Divorce.

Additionally, he has a sub-specialty in working with children from divorced families as well as helping parents deal more effectively with their divorce.

Explaining the higher incidence of adjustment problems among children of divorce compared with those in two - parent families.

Although some children have long - lasting adjustment problems associated with their parents divorce, the differences between children of divorce and children of intact families can be extremely small.

Divorce is always hard on children but it's worse to lose a real parent / child relationship with one of the parents.

And at last, the parents will have to have a discussion with their child (ren) to ensure that children are not blaming themselves for the divorce.

Something to consider... When I speak to separated and divorcing parents, I often tell them that regardless of how you feel about your Ex, no matter how long you have been divorced, when you have children with someone, there is one part of your marriage vows that will always ring true:

In their book Growing Up with a Single Parent: What Hurts, What Helps, sociologists Sara McLanahan and Gary Sandefur found that 31 % of adolescents with divorced parents dropped out of high school, compared to 13 % of children from intact families.