Although there have been many studies on the cause and effects of the divorce rate, the development of children, pre-divorce and post-divorce disturbances, impacts on children, custody, male and female family parenting, relationships, finances, rewards and problems of divorce, according to Pfeffer (1981), another question is, do children from a family of divorce tend to have a higher frequency of divorce themselves, suggesting that maybe a second generation of offspring of divorce should be studied? Studies are needed to reveal the particular effects of total and partial parental absence and the effects of various visitation plans on the parents and the children, and to consider the age of the child in relation to custodial rights and visitation privileges (Pfeffer 1981). She said also that research needs to be done to determine the long-term effects of divorce on a child's development to show what elements of environmental and mental factors help a child make healthy adjustments to separation and divorce. Although research has shown the adverse effects of divorce on children, according to Wong (1995), it should be noted that many samples are small, taken from one area of the country, or chosen from clinical rather than general population, and the lack of control groups in some studies limit the conclusions. Before 1981 there were no studies done on the long term effects of divorce on children, but Pfeffer (1981) has suggested further studies need to ask the questions such as the following:
- What will be the child's future ability to be an adequate parent and marital partner?
- Are children more prone to suffer serious psychiatric conflicts and disabilities when their parents divorce?
- What periods of life of the child of divorce are the most vulnerable?
- Are psychiatric disturbances determined by a child's sex when parents divorce?
- Is the divorce rate related to our culture and societal conditions?
- Why are some divorces resolved of conflict and provide adequate developmental growth of the child, while child disturbance continues in others?
- Are there long-range effects of divorce upon the parent-child relationships and future family structures?
There are two sides of the divorce issue and while the negative side of how divorce affects children out weights the positive side, it is generally agreed that children are better off in a single parent home than in the constant turmoil of an abusive but intact family. There has, however, been very little evidence to support the argument that divorce is an advantage to children.
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