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...

Divorce is best described as a process of change that extends over time and across a number of areas of family functioning. In divorce, there are differences in both family processes and in the children's accommodation to change. There is a definite relationship between divorce and some psychologi...

During the last few decades of the twentieth century we have witnessed a tremendous change in our family structure. Currently America is leading the world in the number of divorces and every year more than a million American children are facing the transition into single parenthood. The im...

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...

Does Divorce Affect Children? There is a lot of moral issues that is apart of the world today. People tend to ask themselves whether this something is moral, or not moral, or any fair and right or unfair and wrong. One controversial question is; does divorce affect children and the answer is yes ...

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...

Research has shown a rising divorce rate and reasons as to why this may be the case. Some of these reasons are women's independence, economic issues, infidelity, and finally role confusion. Divorce has negative effects on children especially in areas such as school work, behavior, social and co...

Changing Divorce Laws In 1995, Statistics Canada data shows that 30% of marriages split . Since the 1960's, marriage and divorce have been undergoing profound changes which have altered the meaning of marriage, the chances of its ending in divorce and the circumstances attached to marriage....

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...

The effects of divorce on children might be likened to lighting striking a structure that is already compromised. The results can range anywhere to setting the entire building ablaze to merely putting a few cracks in the foundation. That more and more families are falling into crisis is evide...

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...