The Impact of Divorce On Children

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The Impact of Divorce On Children

• Student X
• studentx_at_mail.plattsburgh.edu

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Impact of Divorce on Children

• A child going through a divorce within their
  family may need a lot of comforting and love
  shown to them due to the living situations
  resulting from divorce.
• Childrens ability to empathize with their
  parents may make them especially vulnerable to
  adjustment problems following divorce
• Children may go through periods of anger and
  loneliness resulting from a parental divorce.
• Cooney, T. M., Smyer, M.A. (1991). Divorce
  (parental) during adolescence. Encyclopedia of
  Adolescence, (Vol. 1, pp. 244-247). New York
  Garland Publishing, INC.

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Library Of Congress Classification

• Impact of divorce on children falls under the
  Social Sciences discipline.
• For Family Divorce you would look under subject
  area Child- Family Studies HQ
• For the impact on children which has to deal with
  behaviors you would look under subject area
  Psychology BF.

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Library of Congress Subject Headings

• Divorced Parents
• Children of divorced parents
• Parenting part time
• Family conflict
• Parent Child

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Most Effective Keyword Terms Boolean
Searches

• BOOLEAN SEARCHES
• Divorce AND (Children OR Youth)
• Divorce AND Children
• Impact on Children AND Divorce
• (Behaviors OR Actions) AND Separation
• Divorce AND Children NOT Violence
• Psychological AND Behaviors AND (Children OR
  Kids)

• KEYWORD TERMS
• Family, separation, divorce, children, behaviors,
  actions, moods, departure, loneliness, influence,
  family impact, feelings, change, adjustment,
  young adolescence, and youth.

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Most Effective Databases

• JSTOR
• Pro Quest
• EBSCO Host Research Database Professional
  Development Collection
• I noticed when I typed in, Impact of Divorce
  on Children, I got too many results so I had to
  narrow down my topic. After putting in searches
  with just children and divorce or behaviors
  and children and divorce, I ended up with a
  detailed amount of results. After looking at the
  articles from my results I noticed other subject
  headings that I could have used for my Boolean
  searches. When I clicked on them, I found more
  articles that explained my topic in more depth
  then the others.

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Best Book

• Chadwick, B. A., Heaton, T. B. (1999).
  Statistical handbook on the american family.
  Phoenix, ARIZ Oryx Press.

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Best Book Contd

• Teyber, E. (2001). Helping children cope with
  divorce (2nd ed.). San Francisco Jossey-Bass.

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Best Book Contd

• Amato, P. R., Thompson, R. A. (1999). The post
  divorce family children, parenting, and
  society. Thousand Oaks Sage Publications.

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Best Periodical

• Brodie, K. (2005). Between two worlds the inner
  lives of children of divorce. Library
  Journal,130, 100-102. Retrieved February 26,
  2006, from EBSCO Host Research Database.

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Best Periodical Contd

• Self, J. (2006, January 24). Take time to
  consider effects of divorce on children. The
  Atlanta Journal Constitution, A.11. Retrieved
  February 14, 2006, from Pro Quest Newspapers
  database.

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Best Periodical Contd

• Vandewater, E. A., Lansford, J. E. (1998).
  Influences of family structure and parental
  conflict on childrens well being. Family
  Relations,47,321-330. Retrieved February 14,
  2006, from EBSCO Host Research Database.

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Best Periodical Contd

• Kanoy, K., , Miller, B. C. (1980). Childrens
  impact on the parental decision to divorce.
  Family Relations, 29, 309- 315. Retrieved
  February 25, 2006, from JSTOR database.

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Best Internet Source

• Fagan, P.F. (2004). The social scientific data on
  the impact of marriage and divorce on children.
  Retrieved March 8, 2006, from http//www.heritage.
  org/Research/family/tst051304a.cfm

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Best Internet Source Contd

• Linaman, T. E. DR. (n.d.). The effects of divorce
  on children and families. Retrieved March 8,
  2006, from http//www.flc.org/hfl/marriage/mar-flf
  03.htm

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Best Non - Print Source

• Symons, J., Sablosky, L. (2002). Daddy papa.
  United States New Day Films.

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From Best to Least

• Scholarly articles seemed to be the best choice.
  I had used 3 scholarly journal articles. They
  gave very detailed and thorough information on my
  topic. Most articles were written from a student
  or psychologist of the child- family studies
  major. The journal explained the topic to the
  point where it gave a lot of facts and charts.
  These articles went into depth with my topic. I
  was able to receive more results from the journal
  periodical source then from a lot of the other
  sources.
• Books were my second best choice. I used the same
  about of books as I did for scholarly journals.
  Books explained ideas of my topic in many
  different ways such as using real life dialogues,
  scenarios, graphs, opinions and illustrations. It
  wasnt hard finding many results in the Feinberg
  library catalog.
• Magazines was my third choice. I only used one
  because there werent many results on my topic to
  choose from. I believe magazines from sources
  such as Family Relations, and Parents magazine
  will give reliable information on the topic
  Divorce and Children. Since magazines are also
  short articles some important information that
  should be known about my topic might be left out
  from some articles.
• The internet was my forth choice. Using the
  internet for research work is very questionable,
  which was why I only used two websites. Not all
  of the articles showed great accuracy, authority,
  objectivity, currency and coverage. The internet
  was good for pictures and for lists of ideas but
  not thought out paragraphs because the
  information not always gave citations for what
  was written down.
• My last choice was using a non-print source. The
  only information you get out of finding a
  non-print source online is the abstract. The
  abstract may tell a little bit about what the
  source is about but doesnt completely give the
  description in full detail. As many times that I
  tried to change my Boolean search for my topic, I
  only found one video for my topic. Daddy and
  Papa, is about Divorce and remarriage but within
  a gay family. That is also good to know about ,
  but that was not part of my topic. I dont
  believe this movie shows how childrens behaviors
  change and react to the divorce, I believe it
  shows how children react and feel about living
  with two parents of the same sex.

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Some facts I learned from my sources. The Impact
of Divorce on Children
The divorce rate in the US has increased rapidly
over the past two decades. Children are very
important when it comes to divorce and they
usually are the first ones forgotten. Without two
parents involved in the family, children of
divorce may drop out of high school, become teen
mothers and even may become job less. Children
may struggle through a divorce feeling lonely,
unwanted, not loved, depressed, and may even go
through extreme anxiety. Children go through
complex patterns during and after a divorce. That
is why the relationship status between children
and parents needs to be strong. Many financial
and emotional resources of parent young adult
offspring will change. Depending on the age of
the child some may have more rights then others
during a divorce.
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The Research Process Future Learning

• I noticed that just from going to the subject
  data base menu and clicking on the Child-Family
  services category or just Psychology can bring
  you directly to many different databases to find
  information on divorce in children. It wasnt
  that my research process was hard, it was just
  that every article or website usually talked
  about the same thing, just rephrased differently.
  I found information on childrens behaviors, and
  actions during divorce, but I still wanted to
  know how children can cope with these feelings
  and the right person to talk to for help. I plan
  on using this power point to show professors of
  classes that I may be taking within the child
  family studies major. I also plan on using it as
  some sort of resume attachment if I were to get a
  career with in this field. The information here
  and the way it is all set up shows that I am
  trying to research the background of Divorce in
  Children, and if I were to look into a career
  dealing with it. Also I am trying impress and
  catch audiences eyes by using a power point to
  present this topic.

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Image Citations

• Singer, G. (n.d.). Healing the broken heart.
  Retrieved March 7, 2006, from http//www.childreno
  fdivorce.com
• MSU News Service. (2000). Student scholars
  present their studies on hutterite health and
  other topics. Retrieved March 7, 2006, from
  http//www.montana.edu/wwwvr/discovery/DiscSprin
  
  g2000/discpverySpring2000.html
• Symons, J. (2002). About the production team.
  Retrieved February 6, 2006, from
  http//www.daddyandpapa.com/productionTeam.html
• Three Sides. (n.d.) 2/3 Sides to every story.
  Retrieved March 12, 2006, from
• http//www.three-sides-to-every-story.org.