Research Paper on:
Children, Adolescents, and Divorce Effects

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stayed together anyway and made the best of it. Some stayed together "for the kids," in other words, these men and women knew that a divorce would hurt the children.  Further, until about the 1970s, divorce was a stigma, it was rare occurrence. That is no longer true. Divorce is not a stigma, it is the norm. There seems to  be little thought for the effects of divorce on children or anything else. Consider these telling data: only 16 couples in every 100 got a divorce in 1935 but by  1998, 51 marriages out of 100 ended in divorce (Fagan and Rector, 1999). Times have certainly changed. We live in a disposable fast world. Anything is disposable, including marriages. In  the 1930s, only the most severe acts on the part of one spouse or the other led to a divorce. That is no longer true, either. Couples become disenchanted with  each other and rather than trying to work it out and remember why they got married in the first place, they throw the marriage away. The results are devastating. Each  year, more than one million children move from an intact home to one where their parents have divorced (Fagan and Rector, 2000). As of 1999, more than 8 million children  in America were living with their divorced single parent (Fagan and Rector, 2000). When the numbers of divorce and out-of-wedlock children are combined, the result is that more than half  of all American children will live part or all of their childhood with a single parent, a divorced parent or they will be living in a remarried family (Fagan and  Rector, 2000). Even more disheartening is the data from a 1995 Survey of Consumer Finance sponsored by the Federal Reserve Board that revealed that only 42 percent of teenage children