Social Conflict Theory Of Divorce

Divorce is the legal dissolution of a marriage by a court or other competent body. In other words, a married couple does not want to be together anymore for whatever bad reason they came about in their relationship so they split up. There are many reasons as to why a couple would want to get a divorce. Some reasons might be that they struggle financially, they disagree on too many things, they have unmet expectations, infidelity, or maybe they just get bored. Divorce gets more and more common as time goes by. The first thing that pops up when looking up divorce on the internet is cheaper ways to get a divorce or do it yourself divorce. It is normal in this day and age. Divorce can have effects on everyone within a family. It can affect the

Social order is produced on the role of coercion and power. This perspective has a huge emphasis on control, not compliance or cooperation. This theory can be related to divorce in these ways. Divorce is caused by many different things but some of the big reason are financial disagreements, lack of communication, and power. In a marriage, someone usually makes more money than the other so they feel as if they have more power over their spouse. This person feels as if they have won according to the conflict theory because this theory is all about competition. When one person in the relationship feels deprived of an aspect of the relationship, like time or affection, they feel as if it a competition to get that time and affection back. This competition creates a negative mutual reliance between the couple. Conflict theory also demonstrates that people struggle to harmonize conflicting ideas. Married couples are bound to argue or have conflicts in their relationship. It is easy to relate divorce to the conflict theory because married couples are bound to argue and have conflicts in their relationship which often lead to

In my opinion, coming from my situation with divorced parents, divorce obviously has its effects on children but the effects are not always terrible and it does not scar every child that is involved. Divorce is an easy way out of something a couple might be able to work through. I am not saying that divorce is never okay I just think people do not try hard enough to fix their relationship because they obviously married that person for a reason. I do agree with most of the articles conclusions such as Monden’s when he concludes that there is no pattern in which person in the relationship is affected the most and it is completely individual. I enjoyed Marcassa’s article because it was about the rates of divorce. Her study separates men and women divorces and considers concepts like if they had children and/or if they were in the work force. She concludes that divorce rates are higher in 20-44 years olds compared to the elderly. Arkes makes it seem like children with divorced parents are terrible kids. I do not think that divorce affects all children in a terrible way. Arkes says, “After the divorce, youth have an increased risk of using alcohol and marijuana….The magnitudes of the effects persist as the time passes form the divorce” (Arkes, 2013). Weaver and Schofield’s article suggests some other reasons as to why children have behavior problems after divorce. These reasons being family income, maternal