It is very traumatic for a child when their parents get a divorce. There has been a lot of research showing that watching one's parents get divorced is less than ideal and can negatively affect a child's well-being (Moses, 2013). ... Also, according to Kozuch and Cooney, adult children with divorced parents are more likely to move in someone before getting married (Sumner, 2013), which can lead to many other problems. Children of divorced parents tend to have significantly worse mental health than children of married parents. ... When preschool-aged children's parents get a div...

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Sociologist Margaret Mead once said "There is not society in the world where men will stay married for very long unless culturally required to do so" (Popenoe 1996: 323). Although marriage is often viewed as something a woman is more enthusiastic about than a man, studies have shown that "married women have poorer mental health, less happiness, and more passive attitudes toward life than single women do" (Macionis 2002: 346). ... Today, the divorce rate is around 50 percent, and in some surveys as high as 60percent; with mothers getting custody the majority of the time, this leaves many chi...

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The narrator then goes on to say when Pranab followed them in the park he knew she was a Bengali because she was wearing the traditional red and white bangles married Bengai women normally wore and because she has a "thick stem of vermillion powder"(622) in the center parting of her hair. ... Modernity, on the other hand, is represented by Pranab who is trying to get out of his Indian traditions and Usha who has grown up in America and hasn't experienced much of the Indian culture. ... He cuts off the Indian culture by not really speaking to his parents and farther goes on to ma...

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Is Mary Wollstonecraft a Rousseauian? The fundamental relationship between man and woman consists of a bond through marriage. An ideal home would consist of a man and wife, with children born out of the loving relationship. Man is the head of the family, while the mother is the core of the fami...

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