Perspectives on Parental Alienation, Child Custody and Dispute Resolution Systems Contested child custody provides many challenges for alternate dispute resolution. With no-fault divorce, and a standard for determining custody in light of the child's best interest, judges are besieged with a back...

Does Divorce Hurt Kids? By Corliss Richards -75% to 80% of children of divorce are functioning well, with little long-term damage -Within two years of their parents' divorce, the vast majority of children are beginning to function reasonably well again. -70% of divorced parents are living happie...

DIVORCE: A BROKEN DREAM Divorce is now part of everyday American life. The effects of divorce are embedded in our laws and institutions, our manners and mores, our novels and children’s storybooks, and our closest and most important relationships. Indeed, divorce has become so pervasive ...

Divorce causes problems for all family members involved. The film "The Parenthood" illustrates a divorce in which this is exceptionally true. Helen's divorce instigates something to be lost in each of the family member's lives. The divorce triggers Helen to lose a companion, ...

Divorce causes problems for all family members involved. The film "The Parenthood" illustrates a divorce in which this is exceptionally true. Helen's divorce instigates something to be lost in each of the family member's lives. The divorce triggers Helen to lose a companion, ...

Divorce causes problems for all family members involved. The film "The Parenthood" illustrates a divorce in which this is exceptionally true. Helen's divorce instigates something to be lost in each of the family member's lives. The divorce triggers Helen to lose a companion, ...

86% of Americans believe that children should have the benefit of growing up with both parents present, and 64% of Americans believe that a child being raised by a single parent is a serious problem. The steady rise in single parent households contradicts more than half of the American population....

One of the strongest determinants of how well a child adjusts to divorce is whether the former spouses support each other in their continuing relationship as parents. Although this cooperation is essential for the child's secure adjustment, it is often difficult for parents to achieve. When tw...

Julia Austerman Women and Psychology April 5, 2001 Portrait of an American Divorce I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury. -- Groucho Marx As little girls most women dreamed of the perfect wedding, the perfect husband and the perfect marriage, yet, in recent history this d...

The divorcing parents provided us with detailed accounts of the years of marriage, accounts infused with the intense emotion of their recent separation. As they reviewed their courtship, the evolution of the family, including the birth of the children and the course of the marital failure, we were s...

The Effects Of Divorce On Children Divorce is very common in the United States; in fact one out of every two marriages ends in divorce, which is a fifty percent divorce rate. Many children are raised in single parent homes. The effects of divorce on children are devastatin...

It is important to be aware that the 1995 legislation is particularly directed at the wellbeing of children and the promotion of primary dispute resolution, and that these are two broad and important areas which are dependent on value systems which may involve a wide divergence of views. In the case...

Annotated Bibliography Amato, Paul R. and Rezac, Sandra J. (1995, May) Helping Between Parents and Young Adult Offspring: The Role of Parental Marital Quality, Divorce, and Remarriage. Journal Of Marriage And The Family, Vol 57, Issue 2, 363-375 This article is printed in a psychologi...

About Marriage This article entitled "About Marriage" by Danielle Crittenden. She presents a discussion about the changing relationship between women and marriage. Most feminist believe that traditional marriage is no longer compatible with modern women's lives because women nowada...

What is Trauma? We all use the word "trauma" in every day language to mean a highly stressful event. A trauma occurs when people have experienced life-threatening or shocking events which overwhelm the individual's ability to cope. It includes responses to powerful one-time incident...

Children of Divorce When a boat is sinking, all the passengers are given life preservers. When a marriage comes to an end, a similar state of emergency exists, but no one hands you a life preserver. You and your children are on your own, thrashing about, trying hard to survive. Many pare...

In today's society, divorce is more the norm than ever before. There are as many causes for divorce as there are people who divorce. Divorce itself is both a cause and an effect. There are many factors that contribute to divorce, such as lack of money, drug and/or alcohol abuse, immaturity of ...

*Question* "...what society believes is best for children consists of indeterminate and largely speculative ideas, often deeply ambiguous, often not entirely child-centred...[d]ecisions do not represent absolute truths, but value judgments firmly rooted in prevailing societal experience and produce...

In 1998, over a quarter of families with children chose to divorce, despite the negative effects on children. And in the past four years, the rate has continued to increase at an alarming rate. As our society more commonly accepts these break-up of marriage vows, the sacredness of them has continued...

(NEXT SLIDE) The 1950¡s saw the rise of the ¡§traditional¡ nuclear family, illustrated in television shows like ¡§Ozzie and Harriet¡ and ¡§Leave it to Beaver¡. These families redefined society¡s notions of the household and led to the mistaken view that the 'nuclear family¡ i...

Divorce; Are the Children really the victims? Presently the divorce rate is increasing at a surprising rate, and close to 50% of children is growing up in a single parent environment. One out of every two marriages today ends in divorce and many divorcing families include chil...

Does Divorce Create Long-Term Negative Effects on Children? Since the beginning of time the two sexes have been uniting into one to form a union that is to last until the end of their existence. Though easily said, the differences brought into a relationship are often much more than either party ha...

After my eleven year marriage ended in divorce, I suddenly found myself a single parent. My nine year old daughter was dependant upon me for everything; I knew right away that my ex-wife would not be of any help. This realization was a life altering moment. Throughout my marriage I was, misguided...

Children and the Single Parent Single parenting begins with the divorce of a couple who have children. Approximately ninety percent of all minor children live primarily with their mothers. Non custodial fathers usually have less than biweekly contact with their children, and involvement usually dec...

Generation X: Are We Any Different? Every generation has brought on changes to the world we live in. Each generation has challenged their parents in various different ways. For the people born between 1961 and 1981, we have been termed Generation X. So, are we really any different from previous g...