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Based on the reading about children and their divorced parents, what are your conclusions regarding the ways in which to alleviate the stress for children whose parents have divorced?

When parent get divorced kids are left asking themselves so many questions for example

· Who will I live with?

· Where will I go to school?

· Will I move?

· Where will each parent live?

· Where will we spend holidays?

· Will I still get to see my friends?

· Can I still go to camp this summer?

· Can I still do my favorite activities?

This really stress the child if he or she was performer in school their grades drop, they get stress a lot this might make theme withdraw from others or even isolate themselves completely from the rest for the children. it’s the duty of both parent to help their children have a smooth transition during the divorce period. In order to alleviate stress from kids during this period both parents and other family member should be responsible.

WAY OF ALLEVIATING STRESS

Cry is normal and healthy for the kids, over a period of time they will come to accept the new situation. So reassuring them that it's OK to wish that mom and dad will reunite, but also the parent should explain why the made the decisions. Here are some ways to help kids cope with divorce stress :

Encourage honesty; Kids need to know that their feelings are important to their parents and that they'll be taken seriously.

Parents should help their children put their feelings into words

 Kids' behavior can often show how they are feeling, either sad or angry. Parents should encourage the kids to speak out how they are feeling and assure them that everything will be okay.

Legitimize their feelings; Saying "I know you feel sad now" or "I know it feels lonely without dad here" lets kids know that their feelings are valid. It's important to encourage kids to get it all out before you start offering ways to make it better. Let kids know it's also OK to feel happy or relieved or excited about the future. Get help. Sometime the child might no listen to the parent its advisable to seek help find agood children therapist to talk to the children.

Conclusion

The best remedy to alleviate stress from children during divorce period is for both parents to agree on visiting, time one parent may take the kids out one weekend then the other parent does so the following weekend this will make the children feel comfortable that they have not lost their parent but that their parents still love them

Now that you have read about the lives of teenage parents and their children, what are some of the ways you would recommend that families and the community support adolescent mothers? What family and community supports would you suggest for adolescent fathers?

Adolescent mothers mostly live in poor conditions, lack adequate financial resources; they suffer high stress, encounter family instability, and cannot access good education. , most adolescent mothers do not understand what the baby needs are, what they are supposed to do .They need a lot of help from the family and the community. Some of the support adolescent mothers need is:

Emotional support: Motherhood brings increased responsibilities, social recognition, and a sense of purpose for young mothers. Despite the positive aspects of motherhood, participants faced challenges that affected their lives. Most often, the challenges included coping with increased responsibilities following the birth of the baby, managing the competing demands of schooling, work and taking care of a baby is hard for the young mothers. They need emotional assistance, at the young age the thought of being a mother and losing all your teen hood can be stressful, they need guidance .they need to be given reason as to why there next face in life is very important, they should be told how the child they are bringing into the world is now part of them and why they should protect it.

Financial assistance: Adolescent mothers are young and do not have work to sustain themselves let alone the baby, they should be given some source of income to help them cater for their basic need and the babies need; the formula

Social support: Family, friends and the community should provide support socially by not making the young mother feel out of place. Friends should not discuss and talk bad about the young mother because this will make them depressed and even contemplate on suicide.

An adolescent father has so many responsibilities, he has to take care of the mother to the child and the child and most of the adolescent fathers are still in school this is challenge to them as they are required to fend for the family and go to school at the same time. In the projects most adolescent father has to drop from school and start working to provide for their baby mama. Sometimes it’s hard to get good job due to lack of proper education this leaves them with only one choice of slanging drugs or commit crime ,to avoid this adolescent parents need support from the family and community.

The father of an adolescent father should advice him of what is expected of him now that he is a father, he should advice him on how to take care of the family, he should show him how the family should be treated and tell him what is required of him. Adolescent fathers should be helped to get part time job to support their family. Young fathers or adolescent fathers still require to learn a lot from their family so mostly their parents should keep them close .they should teach them what is required of them, this will help them feel strong and loved until the time they can now stand on their own.