One-fifth of Canadian children have lost a parent to divorce, with an effect that some sociologists now say can be "worse than a parent's death." ... Make sure your child knows that he/she is not the cause of the separation. Keep your child's routine consistent but not to the point where it interferes with the child's relationship with the other parent or interferes with the importance of being reasonable flexible. ... Mastering the ability to maintain flexibility without negatively affecting the child is an excellent skill to develop as it teaches the child how parents can ne...

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A key factor in how traumatic the divorce will be for the child, is how well the parents deal with the child's concerns, fears, questions, and anxieties" over the divorce (Zastrow & Kirst-Ashman, 2001, p.496). Additionally, the quality of a child's relationship with the parents prior to the separation or divorce may influence how the child reacts to the divorce. ... The child may also be removed from their friends or relatives. ... Fifth, children need to understand that the divorce is final. ... Being a child of divorced parents is not always negative. ...

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The parent that would take care of the social and emotional growth of the child, not to mention the teaching of personal needs of the individual child's growth. The female has also been the one parent with the responsibility of seeing that the school age child was well read and homework was complete. ... Children are taught how to use foul language by hearing acceptable playground or social language at school and inappropriate things that would have be terminiated at the onset by the mother would have more time to spend with the child, it the child's bad behavior could have been avoi...

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They went on in the next couple of years and had another child, they had a child from before the marriage, and life seemed unstoppable for the two. ... But, not only was Diego working for the family, trying to gain her parent's respect, as a ranch keeper on the family's ranch but, was giving Cassie, Nicholas and Sharon's oldest child, horse back riding lessons and was very much involved with their lives. ... Just to give an idea, Victor (Nicholas' father) had married Nikki twenty years ago, and they have since been divorced four times now, they are working on the fifth ma...

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She was the fifth child born in the family and the house they lived in was getting crowded. By the time they moved into the new house they build her parents had a sixth child, a girl. ... She was born a middle child and she felt she had the best of both ends. ...

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It is related to the effects caused by offering direct physical, mental, or emotional care to a spouse, loved-one, child, parent, etc. ... Aging and Mental Health; Positive Psychosocial And Biomedical Approaches Fifth Ed. ...

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Slave families then were held together by a web of kin connections; grandparents, uncles, aunts, cousins became the nurturer of the child when the absence of one or both parents occurred. A great majority, four-fifths in 1800, of American families farmed the land for themselves and their neighbors despite the growing expansion of commerce, transportation innovations, and manufacturing. ...

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This assessment and personal interview was conducted with a pleasant and well put together female from Bangkok, Thailand. She is friendly and helpful in providing a brief history of her life in Thailand as well as her experiences in America. For this study, I will call her E.S. She provides history ...

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