Change. It comes in all forms- genuine and inferior, melancholy and exceptional, and it needs to come to Pine Grove Elementary. The form of change in this occasion is the Mental Health Availability at Pine Grove Elementary. While many have claimed that the needs of therapists are much more dire in Middle and High School, many sixth graders feel that Pine Grove Elementary has a need for counseling that is not being addressed. While Parker, Colorado seems to be reasonably free of school shootings, horrible accidents, or any kind of dramatic catastrophe that we read about daily in the news, elementary children in Parker are not reasonably free of home issues, post-traumatic stress, and social issues. Having a better therapy system at Pine Grove will change the elementary years of many children who attend this school. …show more content…
Social Issues come in many forms, one of which is dealing with divorce. Divorce is particularly common, (according to mckinleyirvin.com, forty-one percent of marriages end in divorce,) but is still a severely difficult scenario to go through. The Huffington Post recently undertook a study that shows that men who are from a divorced household are three times more likely to commit suicide, and women an eight-three percent more likelihood of doing the same. While counseling would not be able to completely diminish this issue at Pine Grove, it will help those going through this issue. Sons and daughters alike can worry about which parent they are going to stay with, and Huffington Post says that children are more likely to be raised by their mother other than their father, and that would undoubtedly be difficult to go through. While counseling would not be able to completely destroy these issues, it would be able to help students at Pine Grove Elementary be able to go through this issue feeling more
For a positive future, it is only common sense that a generation of healthy children must be raised. A stable family unit and personal attention seem logical ways to rear successful young people. Yet statistics show that in 2003, approximately 37,000 marriages and 21,000 divorces occurred in Kentucky; other states showed very similar ratios, such as Ohio, with about 73,000 marriages and 40,000 divorces (NVSR, Pg. 6). Clearly, many students already have “broken homes” as obstacles, but the homogenous
On most occasions, divorces leads to children shifting from one district school to another leading to emotional disruption since they require emotional adjustments. After divorces, when there are second families, there are the unique problems of step families (Howe, 2012). Children may not be comfortable with step families since they may treat them unequally compared to their own children. Research has shown that most children suffer silently under the care of step parents. Subsequent marriages are less likely to work out than first marriages and hence it may require further adjustments to the lifestyles of the children. Studies that even though the subsequent marriages may work for the parents, the same success does not always trickle down to the children and hence they end up getting a raw
Unfortunately, we live in a world were economic times are tough. It can be a struggle for parents to adequately support children - especially if there is only one parent. According to Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development about 15.9 percent of children world wide live in single-parent households. In the United states alone there are approximately 13.7 million single parents today, and those parents are responsible for raising 21.8 million children (approximately 26% of children under 21 in the U.S. today). The question we must ask is, What struggles and psychological effect does separation and divorce have on the parents as well as the children?
Money will not solve or make this problem go away, no matter how many social workers are hired. Schools will succeed despite their financial circumstances if they have the basic components of motivated students, parent support, caring teachings, and strong central leadership. While this is the typical model of a suburban school system, Wilson High School proves that it can work anywhere. When ones thinks of urban public schools, overcrowded classes, underpaid teachers, and a lack of resources often come to mind. The fact is these problems can happen anywhere. While the environment at Kennedy could never be compared to the worst DC high school, the assumptions made against these schools are the same. By erasing these notions and confronting the problems one by one, we will be one step closer to reaching equal education for all.
Divorce is becoming a worldwide phenomenon, significantly affecting children’s well-being. It radically changes their future, causing detrimental effects. According to (Julio Cáceres-Delpiano and Eugenio Giolito, 2008) nearly 50% of marriages end with divorce. 90% of children who lived in the USA in the 1960s stayed with their own biological parents, whereas today it makes up only 40% (Hetherington, E. Mavis, and Margaret Stanley-Hagan, 1999). Such an unfavorable problem has been increasing, because in 1969, the California State Legislature changed the divorce laws, where spouses could leave without providing cause (Child Study Center, 2001).
Children today are busy with friends, sports, and other circular activities. There are countless opportunities and dreams which most children only imagine accomplishing. What if one day, that was all to change. Suddenly, their life is a complete mess. Children and teens are not mentally prepared to withstand a divorce between the two people they think can get through anything. It is not fair for someone so innocent to have their world completely flipped upside down and their life changed forever. Divorce can change not only the child’s life, but also the way they talk, think, and behave. Focus on the Family points to a decline and a regression in a child’s behavior which includes drug use, crime, and sexual behavior because of divorce. Grades tend to drop and the likeliness of graduation is diminished. “Negative attitudes become apart of their life and fantasies begin to play a role” (2006-2007). According to the author Desia, in her article about how children are affected by divorce, she
Divorce is a very common word in today's society. According to the American Heritage Dictionary, "divorce is the legal dissolution of a marriage or a complete or radical severance of closely connected things"(Pickett, 2000). This dissolution of marriage has increased very rapidly in the past fifty years. In 1950 the ratio of divorce to marriage was one in every four; in 1977 that statistic became one in two. Currently one in every two first marriages results in divorce. In second marriages that figure is considerably higher, with a 67% average (National Vital Statistics Report, 2001). One critical aspect of divorce is often not taken into consideration: How it affects children. Every year 1.1 million children are affected by divorce (Benjamin, 2000). Children from divorce or separation often exhibit behavioral and long-term adjustment problems (Kelly, 2000). Throughout this paper I will discuss divorces effects on children at different age levels, how they react, and what can be done to help them.
Parental divorce is experienced by over 1 million American children every year and the percentage of those who come from divorced families is at a constant rise (Fackrell, Poulsen, Busby, Dollahite, 2011). Children often experience the brunt of their parent’s conflict during divorce and internalize those feelings far into adulthood. When comparing children of divorce to those from intact families, it was found that it can negatively affect achievement level in school, behavior issues, emotional problems, self-esteem, and their future interpersonal relationships (Amato & Sobolewski, 2001; Cui & Fincham, 2010). In a study done in 2011 by Fackrell, Poulsen, Busby, and Dollahite; it was discovered that children of divorce also have been found
The students are the focal point of this paper, but the student services staff within Schaumburg High School identifies the home life to be a major issue. The reasons behind that are the students bring a lot of baggage, through various examples that will be discussed as well as student’s psychological problems. The first piece of baggage that can affect students are divorced parents. According to the American Psychological Association, “about 40 to 50 percent of married couples in the United States divorce” (p. 1). From this data, the chances of students within the high school with divorces parents are painfully high. Parental conflict has the possibility of hurting the child short term as well as long term. “We found that harsh parental verbal
The Family structure has changed significantly in the last fifty years. With higher percentages of marriage ending in divorce, and higher rates of childbearing out of wedlock, single parent families are increasing rapidly. “Seventy percent of all the children will spend all or part of their lives in a single-parent household.” (Dowd) Studies have shown that the children of these families are affected dramatically, both negatively and positively. Women head the majority of single- parent families and as a result, children experience many social problems from growing up without a father. Some of these problems include lack of financial support, and various emotional problems by not having a father around, which may contribute to problems later in life. At the same time, children of single-parent homes become more independent because they learn to take care of themselves, and rely on others to do things for them.
Imagine a child, whose parents just went through a painful divorce, they are having many problems physically and emotionally. Such as they’re depressed so they eat and gain weight, which can be unhealthy for them if they gain too much. Or they’re depressed, so they give up on life and have thoughts of suicide. Divorce affects many of children across the world, Although divorce may bring some relief to both parents, most of them have no idea of the damage that a child encounters at their separation. There are many issues and concerns that divorced parents must think about when children are involved. Divorce affects children in many ways such as emotionally, physically, academically, and socially. Although there may be some advantages to divorce, for example divorce is good if the child is being hurt or abused, by one of the parents. The reality is that divorce is bad for many children because it can make the children depressed, and because they have to choose which parent to stay with. Parents should stay in marriage instead of divorce for the sake of the children.
We live in a society in which the unconventional or non-traditional family has become more or less the social norm. More and more households are divided or consist of blended families, single parents, gay and lesbian couples, etc., and it can have a major effect on the behavior of youth of today. A predominant factor in all of this is the incidence of divorce. Two people get married too early and decide to have children, then the marriage doesn’t work out for various reasons, and the children are forced to take on a new lifestyle, which can be extremely shocking and potentially traumatizing to them. This can lead to a variety of different behavior problems in adolescents. For example, in situations in which an adolescent feels like the parent isn’t emotionally available to him or her, the adolescent is much more likely to express aggressive or delinquent behavior because the adolescent feels like he or she has to internalize his or her issues (Van der Graaff, Branje, De Wied, & Meeus, 2012). The more parents are caught up in their personal lives (for example, divorce), the less likely that those parents will be emotionally available to their child. In contrast, many people claim that gay and lesbian couples are unfit to raise children; however studies show that said children are equally advantaged academically, socially, and emotionally as their peers (Amato, 2012). Both sides of the spectrum are important to address because many adults don’t recognize the long-term effects of a marriage. Some people talk down about gay marriage being detrimental to the health of children, and yet a leading factor in adolescent delinquents rests in divorce, which predominantly ...
In this current time, the family norms and values are changing drastically. Now we see more marriages getting divorces during the first years. In this era, divorces are common in our society; and people have learned to live by themselves. A while back, cultures thought that having a divorce would be a sin under the eyes of god but many people have forgotten about that sin. Now people get married knowing that if the relationship as a married couple does not work there are chances of requesting a divorce. More of the divorce cases occur because couples are falling apart due to many different reasons, for example; conflict on their marriage, loss of romantic feelings, a spouse committing an affair or some kind of marriage problem. Some of the divorcing couples have children of young age. The children do not have an idea on how to deal with a terrible event like the “Divorce.” Some of the children will have to learn to deal with the divorce at a young age and this dramatic change may cause the child to develop some kind of mental and attitude problems. Parents do not realize in how hard it is for a child to deal with a divorce from their parents. In addition parents should understand that the divorce is affecting more their children than their personal lives. In a divorce may lead a child to have dramatically changes in a daily live; and the divorce can be stressful, sad, and confusing for kids of all ages. Children that experience a divorce have more chances on developing a psychological problem and bad behavior. Children suffer from the separation of their parents and their adulthood may be affected.
Marriage Counseling or “Couple Therapy” is a term that is used to describe a type of counseling a couple attends in order to help them overcome issues in their relationships to avoid separation or divorce. Today, people view divorce as something that occurs commonly between married couples who have difficulty maintaining a relationship with their spouse. For the past thirty years, the phrase: “fifty percent of marriages end in divorce”, seems to have been ingrained into people’s mentality because it has become extremely common to come across individuals who have either been through one or more divorces. Divorce or separation not only affects the couples, but also their children. Having a strong family plays a major part in the lives of children and is crucial for their mental well-being. A report done by a team of senior academics for DailyMail UK found that “the damage caused to a child by divorce continues to blight his or her life as far as old age” and that “parental separation in childhood was consistently associated with psychological distress in adulthood during people’s early thirties”. Not only does the report show that children are affected by the effects of divorced but, the report also suggests that as divorce and separation continues to grow more common in society, the effects it has on the mental health of children does not reduce.
Children who come from divorced families perform inadequately oppose to two-parent families due to emotional distraction and confusion, consequentially effecting their test scores and grade. (Kunz, 1992) According to the article The Effects on Academics of Children Who Come from Divorced Families by Thomas Hanson, American sophomore students in high school were observed and discovered that children from families with divorced parents were behind in academics when compared to those with “normal families. It is also found that students who come from broken families are almost three times as likely to drop out of school. It is exceptionally strenuous for a child to focus and succeed when the foundation of their life is being destroyed and their regular support system is not there. Even though the effects of divorce might not be the same for...