Argumentative Essay On Divorce

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In today 's society, as a teen the main thing that is crossing most minds is what career we are going to pursue and the ones who are in serious relationships think about marriage and the possibility of children. I do not know how it is for everyone else but for me almost everyday that I get on my social media accounts I see posts about someone announcing a pregnancy or engagement. Have you ever sat back and questioned how many marriages whether they were 18 year old couples or 50 year old couples divorced? In an Article By Scott Stanley he asked sociologist Paul Amato what he thought the divorce rate was today and he said “difficult to know what is going on with the divorce rate” (Stanley) but predicts it to be forty two to forty five percent. …show more content…

All though that number is below fifty percent we do not seem to realize and grasp how much a divorce can truly affect a family, especially the children. I personally have faced the challenges of living with divorced parents. They’ve been divorced since I was four months old so I have become use to it but that does not mean that it ever got easier. Not all kids know what it is like having divorced parents but they see it as being lucky because we (the kids) get double the gifts, trips away from our hometown to see the non-custodial parent, and only have one parent to tell us what to do all the time versus them having two. The hardest things about divorced parents is having to determine which parent gets to see you on what holiday, missing out on time not only with the non-custodial parent but their side of the family as well, driving hours to visit, and trying to make time in a busy school and work schedule to see them. Families that face divorce, no doubt, struggle more than a family who remains as …show more content…

Problems do not occur to all children who experience divorce between their parents because everyone handles the absence of a parent differently than others would. In an article called “The Effect of Parental Divorce on Young Adults’ Romantic Relationship Dissolution” Ming Cui, Frank D. Fincham, and Jared A. Durtschi talk about the importance of a romantic relationship for teens because it helps to transition them into adulthood, helps with behavioral adjustment, and can predict how their future relationships will turn out to guide them in the right direction. “In particular, parental divorce has been demonstrated to have an impact on young adults’ romantic relationship dissolution. However, the effects of divorce are diverse and complex, and not all children from divorced families experience relationship difficulties and dissolution” (Cui 410). They did mention what things may distort a child’s potential relationship by saying “This study addresses this issue by investigating how parental divorce may affect young adult romantic relationship dissolution differently through perceptions of parental divorce, attitudes toward divorce, and commitment to one’s romantic relationship” (Cui 411). When a child lives seeing their parents relationship fall apart, leading to divorce that makes most want to live their life differently. Therefor they usually do the opposite of what their parents

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