Wednesday, April 22, 2009
Americans ambivalent toward single-parent families
This is an article found on physorg.com announcing a new article published by the Journal of Marriage and the Family. This article describes findings from a single-parent family study of teh evolution of attitudes toward single-parent families. The questions of why Americans form single parent families and their expression of ambilivalence toward themselves. Very interesting. I want to see the whole article now.
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Unfortunately, many people mistakenly believe that getting a divorce will not have much of an impact either on themselves or on their children. But they really seem to change their tune after the divorce. Unfortunately warning someone about the dangers of a divorce when they want to get one, is often too late, they already have their minds made up to do so.
ReplyDeleteI'd be very interested to see the full article as well. I think this ambivalence can be particularly difficult for children. I remember as a child (shortly after the news had gotten out that my parents were divorcing) that a former bishop stood up in the middle of church and went on and on about what a shame it was that my parents marriage was ending and our family was splitting up... I really struggled with this. Even as a kid I knew my parents splitting up was a good thing (neighbors had no idea what life was like at our house). To get so many messages from society that it was a terrible thing and our family was now inferior was less than helpful.
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