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...

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In this family model, both parents provide each other with the emotional, physical, and monetary support to assist in rearing their children. ... According to the book "The Development of Children," the cost associated with raising a child in 1999 from birth to the age of 17 was $157,000. ... To deal with the tiresome and stressing situations that accompany child care my mom would engage us in games to keep us preoccupied. One such game was the "quiet game" in which the objective was to see which child could stay quit the longest. ...

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