last minute due ASAP sociology

Crystal Parker

Senior Seminar

American Military University

September 26, 2015

Crystal

Divorce and impact on children is a great topic, but you seem to have some confusion here as to what kinds of questions to ask and try to cover too much here. Keep it simple. As I must have suggested earlier, you need to start from searching for a peer reviewed article in a sociological academic database (such as JSTOR) and limit by the last 10-15 years. I made a few comments on the copy. Write me with any questions. 4

21st century is marked with the beginning of technology but with this advancement of technology we are experiencing increase in divorce rates. The relationship between the two is not clear… this is awkward… The researchers noticed an increase in divorce rates in America in past few years. They states that about 40-50% of first marriages and 60% of second marriages end up in divorce (Davis, 2002). Research has also shown that it impacts the children badly and thus I would like to raise a question to discuss this issue in detail. So are you trying to explain divorce rates or explore impact of children? There are two separate topics here…

Thesis statement: Should divorce be encouraged? “should” does not belong in a research paper

This question has a great significance in our society because it not only impact the couples who goes through mental trauma of this process but they also affect the children who are born to divorced parents. This is a different topic altogether A child needs love and care to grow and in this process presence of both of the parents are required. It becomes really hard for a single parent to take care of the needs of the child and the child also misses the affection of his mother /father. Researchers have proved that the academic performance of the children deteriorates, they end up using drugs and committing crimes more often. They experience more health problems, difficulty in concentration, likely to drop-out high school and many more. Sometimes the emotional pain is so strong that they commit suicides. Ok, Why don’t you focus on impact of children? Evidence of bad and ok?

This thesis is significant to the field of sociology because marriage is an undeniable ritual prevalent in the society which is based on love and trust and the couples not only vow to stay in that relationship till death but also gives rise to children who also marries after becoming an adult. This goes on in a cyclical manner. Various studies and researches have been conducted to find out the effects of divorce on children who are born to couples facing divorce. Children are considered the future and any factor that disturbs their growth pattern or mental or physical and emotional status, is studied because if one cycle faces trauma, it is likely that the effects can be seen in the other cycle too. I was also raised by a single parent after my parent's divorce and I faced a lot of trauma and thus I feel connected to the issue and would like to discuss more about it in my essays.

I will utilize the following peer reviewed article for my essay namely "Consequences of Parental Divorce for Child Development". This article explores how divorces effect children and for this a three- stage estimation model was proposed which could examine cognitive and non-cognitive skills of children and their development during the pre-, in-, and post-divorce time periods. For this purpose ECLS-K, OLS model and a growth-curve model was used and it was discovered that it certainly affected the math test scores during and after the divorce and changes in internalizing behaviour due to the divorce. It also noted that children suffered various setbacks among children of divorce (Kim,2011)

Reference:

Kim H (2011). Consequences of Parental Divorce for Child Development Volume 76 Number 3487-511. American Sociological Review. Retrieved from http://www.asanet.org/images/journals/docs/pdf/asr/Jun11ASRFeature.pdf good source but this is a paper not a peer reviewed article it seems since it is from the ASA site; look for journal articles

Davis M (2002). The Divorce Remedy: The Proven 7-Step Program for Saving Your Marriage