Divorce Effects on Children

Divorce has effects on the children involved. There are differences between the coping processes of the children. Children can be coached, modeled or interact among the adults that they are close to. The effects of divorce can differ between gender and the age of the children that are involved. Commuting as a result of divorce can have an effect on the children. All of this is involved in the family institution of sociology. Sociology is defined as the study of society, social institutions and social relations (Webster). Social imagination is an important thing in society. It is a term coined by C. Wright Mills, an American Sociologist in 1959 and defined as the vivid awareness of the relationship between experience and the wider society (Dixon). The importance of using social imagination to understand social life is that people need an awareness of the experience and society to see the relationship between them. Divorce can have different effects on children depending on their coping process, gender, age, and commuting between the parents.

Divorce effects on children is a social problem. It is a social problem because it deals with how children interact with each other and adults as well as causing social issues in some depending on age and gender. Children are our future so if they aren’t at their best, it affects us. A personal issue only deals with one person and does not affect society. A social issue affects society so that makes divorce effects on children a social problem.

The data and methods collected came from a variety of people, ways and number of the samples in different places. C. E. Velez did a group observation of 240 family participants in Arizona (Velez, 2011). Group observation takes a while to collect data and the presences of an observe might affect results. The 240 families is a good sample size though. S. Vanassche did a questionnaire of 1,800 participants in Belgium (Vanassche, 2013; pp 139-158). Questionnaires is a faster way to get more people for research and the way they did it, they got a disproportional sample from across all social classes that includes school type and regions. A fault about questionnaires though is that people could provide false data. K. Williams did face-to-face interviews oat the Ohio State University that had 5,068 participants (Williams, 2006). Face-to-face interviews take a little longer to collect data and people can provide false data.