Research in Development
The consequences of Divorce on its Children
Final Draft
By:
Jordan Melo
Integration into Social Sciences
Emmanuelle Carle
May 20, 2010
John Abbott College
Table of Contents
Abstract 3
Introduction 4
Literature Review 5
Methods Statement 7
Results 11
Conclusion 21
References 23
Appendices 24
People often believe that divorce always has a negative impact on the family. For this study, we looked at the consequences of divorce on adolescents and focused on certain factors of their lives before and after the divorce concerning their school grades, friendships and also romantic relationships. We collected all the data by passing out surveys and conducting two interviews at John Abbott College using only students from 17 to 20 years of age. In the end, we concluded that our hypothesis, divorce affecting adolescents in school, friendships and also romantic relationships, must be rejected. The majority of the students didn’t have any changes caused by the divorce but what we found was that both males and females adolescents did experienced sadness. For future studies, we were considering observing the parents in relation with their child after divorce and detect if there were any changes conserving love for one another as a family.
For this research the topic at hand will be most definitely an interesting one. The topic is divorce and its effect on the adolescents. We will be exploring the minds of the adolescents trying to establish if divorce has an impact on the children involved. The problem with divorce is that it has a negative effect on the society. In the past years, divorce rates have increase immensely due to the fact that the newer generation are seeing divorce as an acceptable action. This topic has been researched before by other researchers and many of which have their own theses and results such as children whose parents are divorce when they are younger don’t
Final Draft
By:
Jordan Melo
Integration into Social Sciences
Emmanuelle Carle
May 20, 2010
John Abbott College
Table of Contents
Abstract 3
Introduction 4
Literature Review 5
Methods Statement 7
Results 11
Conclusion 21
References 23
Appendices 24
People often believe that divorce always has a negative impact on the family. For this study, we looked at the consequences of divorce on adolescents and focused on certain factors of their lives before and after the divorce concerning their school grades, friendships and also romantic relationships. We collected all the data by passing out surveys and conducting two interviews at John Abbott College using only students from 17 to 20 years of age. In the end, we concluded that our hypothesis, divorce affecting adolescents in school, friendships and also romantic relationships, must be rejected. The majority of the students didn’t have any changes caused by the divorce but what we found was that both males and females adolescents did experienced sadness. For future studies, we were considering observing the parents in relation with their child after divorce and detect if there were any changes conserving love for one another as a family.
For this research the topic at hand will be most definitely an interesting one. The topic is divorce and its effect on the adolescents. We will be exploring the minds of the adolescents trying to establish if divorce has an impact on the children involved. The problem with divorce is that it has a negative effect on the society. In the past years, divorce rates have increase immensely due to the fact that the newer generation are seeing divorce as an acceptable action. This topic has been researched before by other researchers and many of which have their own theses and results such as children whose parents are divorce when they are younger don’t
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