Introduction: After divorce, the stages of grief that a child experiences is nothing compared to the unresolved issues that will later develop in their young adult lives. Most of the raising issues tend to relate to serious relationships, especially ones pertaining to marriage. Divorce can be a catastrophe that effects more than just the husband and wife. A healthy or unhealthy divorce can have a serious impact on the family members involved, especially children. The emotional results of divorce affect more than one million children a year, all which lead to negatively affecting their future relationships and lifestyles.
Main Points:
Describe how issues, fears, and psychological problems develop
“Sleeper effect of divorce”
Affects on gender
Statistics for how children are more likely to get married earlier, etc.
Children in their young adult life
Relationship with each parent before and after
Predicting long term effects from the short term responses
Ways parents can prevent a long-term effect
Good marriage versus a bad divorce
It can affect the different ages of children
Conclusion: Divorce is not an act that parents can prevent but instead they can handle it in a better manner for the people indirectly and directly involved. Uninformed parents need to realize the emotional rollercoaster they are putting their children through and they need to take steps to understand the extent of this. The answer is for parents to be able to communicate with their child and know how to talk to them. Divorce affects children in an immediate sense but the children will be more distraught in their later lives if their parents do not handle their issues from the beginning.
You picked a good topic, I think your paper will very interesting to read! The only comment I have is you might want to check your use of "effects" vs. "affects."
ReplyDeleteMaricel, everything sounds very interesting! Did you find any sources that argue that sometimes divorce can help a bad family situation?
ReplyDeleteThis is a really good topic! I think you will be able to find lots of information and it will be very interesting to see all of your statistics. This has always been a very hot topic. Good job:)
ReplyDeleteMaybe talk about a kid growing up with their parents already divorced. My parents split up when I was six weeks, so I don't know what it was like when they were together.
ReplyDeleteHey Maricel, I really like this topic. I think you can make this a great paper with some of your strong arguments. I think that you should look for some stats about kids that are affected by their parents divorce. Other than that, it’s a great paper.
ReplyDeleteClaudy
I really like your topic although, being a child of divorce myself, don't one hundred percent agree with your thesis. But you are arguing a side of this issue, so I see where you're coming from. But I agree with Ashley on maybe talking a little about how it can sometimes help a bad family situation
ReplyDeleteKristen and Ashley make good points. Don't commit a Stacking the Evidence fallacy.
ReplyDeleteThis looks fine now, but I need to see your detailed outline.
-Candace