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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"Children of divorce"”.
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Adult Children of Divorce: Explaining Romantic Relationships into Adulthood
… the mental, physical, and emotional effects of divorce on children of all ages. While there is some research that examines adult children of divorce (ACOD) (e.g., Dornak, 2013; Lambert-South, 2013), this group is still largely understudied. Building on previous research and framing the …
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How Adults Use Reddit to Cope with Being Children of Divorce
… media describe their experiences as a child of divorce? The purpose of this study was to explore how posts on the social media platform Reddit are used by people to reflect on their parents’ divorce when they were younger. Reddit is a social news aggregation, web content rating, and …
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Children of divorce versus children of intact families and their adjustment to college
<p>Children of divorce and children of intact families grow up in very different worlds. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects that being a child of divorce has on later adjustment in college. A sample of 95 undergraduate students were administered the Student Adaptation to …
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Evaluation of a school-based intervention programme for South African children of divorce
… in South Africa affects an estimated 30 000 children under the age of 18 annually. These children spend a great part of their day at school where they have to interact with peers and teachers and are expected to perform academically, but parental separation could have a significant impact on …
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Behaviour symptomatology and an intervention approach with children of divorce in a school setting
… that have influenced many people including children. Within a systemic context children are impacted upon by various micro-systems within which they find themselves, for example, the family, the school and church amongst others, as well as the macro-system of society as a whole. Divorce is …
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Art Therapy Peer Support Group for 3rd, 4th, and 5th Grade Children of Divorce
<p>This proposed project will study the efficacy of an art therapy peer support group for improving children’s adjustment to divorce. Although the divorce rate in the United States appears to have decreased slightly from its peak in 1981 (U.S. Census Bureau, 2004-2005), the U.S. divorce rates …
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Adult children of divorce and their attitudes towards romantic long-term relationships : comparison between genders
Individuals who have experienced their parents’ divorce often encounter adverse effects that shape their attitudes and views toward romantic relationships. The current research strived to examine if adult children of divorce and individuals from intact families have significantly different …
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An investigation into the effects of varying custody and access arrangements upon the emotional adjustment of children of divorce
… recent years there has been a growing awareness of divorce as a significant sociological phenomenon. In spite of this, however, there has been a conspicuous lack of systematic empirical research aimed at examining the effects of divorce upon children. The present study arose out of many years of …
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An ecosystemic assessment of the 'children of divorce intervention program' for children between the ages of eight to twelve years
… been an attempt to understand the progression of twenty-eight 'children of divorce' as they have participated in the Children of Divorce Intervention Program (CODIP) and through the fifteen-month follow-up period thereafter. There were 15 girls and 13 boys; their ages ranged from 7 to 13 years; …
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The School's Role as a Support System for Children of Parental Divorce.
<p>In the year 2000, over one million children were involved in a new divorce. These statistics indicated that this subgroup of children would continue to be a large part of the school population. The school, because of time spent there, becomes a likely place for the recognition and identification …
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Divorce: A matter of rights and responsibilities
… rights, turned away from traditional fault-based divorce laws to embrace the easy, unilateral no-fault divorce laws in place today---divorce laws that have had unexpected and disastrous economic consequences for the children of divorce. During the 1990s, many political and social groups advocated …
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An evaluation of the post-divorce adjustment of counselled and non-counselled children.
… study is a small scale naturalistic evaluation of an innovative counselling service for children of divorce. Two main research questions are addressed. Firstly, are the children in receipt of counselling different from children of divorce who have not received counselling? Secondly, was the …
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The Impact of a School-Based Intervention Program on the Divorce Adjustment of Latency -Aged Children: An Evaluation of the Rainbows Program
Over one million children experience the divorce of their parents each year in the United States (U.S. Bureau of the Census, 1992). Concerns about children's well-being led to the development of a multitude of interventions for children coping with divorce. However, only a few of the intervention …
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Investigation of variables influencing college students' marital attitudes and fear of intimacy
The purpose of this study was to investigate the influences of parental characteristics (i.e., marital status, parenting styles, parenting style congruence) and gender on the development of marital attitudes and fears of intimacy in young adults. A total of 326 undergraduate students (ages 18 to …
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FACTORS RELATED TO THE PSYCHOLOGICAL ADJUSTMENT OF IRANIAN CHILDREN WHO HAVE EXPERIENCED DIVORCE
<p>Divorce is an event that can have profound psychological consequences for children of all ages. Vast research has shown that children from divorced families suffer from short and long-term negative effects such as mental health problems (i.e. anxiety and depression) and interpersonal …
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A Case Study of Three Children from Single-Parent Divorced Families
The problem. The problem of this study was to describe the home and school behavior patterns of children from two single-parent divorced families. The procedure. A case study of three children from two single-parent divorced families was conducted for a period of ten months. Formal and informal …
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Is the emotional security of children adequately safeguarded in South African divorce law and procedure? An appraisal of how divorce law and procedure in South Africa can be adjusted to fully cater to and protect the emotional security of children during divorce proceedings
Children, defined as those below the age of 18 by article 1 of the 1989 United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), are a particularly vulnerable group as a result of their limited legal capacity and autonomy. As a consequence of this, legal rules and procedure in domestic …
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The effects of parental divorce on adult children's expectations of their own future families
A large body of literature addresses the effects of divorce on children. Only a small part of this literature, however, addresses the effects of divorce on young adult children. This smaller body of literature addresses the emotional effects of divorce, the way adult children of divorce perceive …
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