The more conflict involved in a divorce, the more the child is exposed to the overt unhappiness of their relationship. ... When conflict has domain dimension this suggests there will be disagreements over a series of divorce issues such as financial support, property division, custody, and access to the children, or to values and methods of child rearing. ... Maccoby and Mnookin's data was able to indicate that one quarter of divorces were highly conflicted when it came to child rearing behaviors around three and a half years after separation. ... At the 10 year follow up one child was re...

• Word Count: 1943
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People should vote and file a petition to change the system of our government that married couples should be prepared and do some kind of community services regarding child-rearing, or propose a town meeting that will discuss a healthy relationship that will benefit their role as parent and as husband and wife as well. ... The importance of having two parents in a child's life has a great impact on their behavior and personality. ... Our current welfare system encourages the formation of "the mother-state-child family" and Uncle Sam has become a marriage partner and "father" as a last res...

• Word Count: 1253
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• Grade Level: High School

Each child is unique, so the short and long term functioning of the children after divorce varies widely. ... This can be associated with a child's disturbed eating, sleeping, play and toileting, (Wallerstein & Blakeslee). ... In a study done by Judith Wallerstein, she tracked 131 children of divorced parents 10 and 15 years after the divorce, she found that diminished parenting continued permanently, disrupting the child-rearing functions of the family. The role of the child becomes one of warding off the serious depression that threatens the parents and holding the parent together. Wall...

• Word Count: 1819
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• Grade Level: High School

Most parents experience an unconditional love for their children, because no aspect of childhood seems more natural, universal, and changeless than the relationship between parent and child. The shift from an agrarian society to an industrial society over the past 200 years has revolutionized parent-child relationships and the terms of child development. ... Trophy wives are defined as women who older, successful men remarry, to replace their older, loyal, child-rearing wives. ... Examples of family violence include marital rape, women's abuse of men, elderly abuse, and child abuse (physi...

• Word Count: 2040
• Approx Pages: 8
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate