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The novelty of the work related directly to both the issue and the population used. The choice of sample design and the method of mailing in the questionnaire present some clear areas of weakness for the work. Mail-in questionnaires have a high non-return rate and this study demonstrates this clearly. The authors however noted that this limitation of the work suggests that the findings should be related to with a measure of caution. It is definitely possible that the persons who failed to respond have an underlying characteristic that may have changed the findings. Despite this clear impediment the work is valuable because it opens a new vista of inquiry for future researchers.
The study also has issues with generalizability. The amount of error in a sample that size may be beyond what is an acceptable limit. No confidence intervals were produced for the descriptive results of the study so that the precision of the work could not be immediately determined....
The variability within the sample in some instance was very wide as is the case of months married where the SD was 66.3 months. Additionally, the sample descriptors identified the sample as not representative of the national population in key areas, ethnicity, and SES. Thus the work cannot be applied with great certainty beyond the White, middle class community.
The study however points to the need to have policies and programs that assist couples in the management of their post-divorce conflict. While the major predictors cannot be manipulated they can however identify at risk couples. These at risk couples could become beneficiaries of a program designed to assist them in conflict reduction. The value of the work is that it can also provide guidance to legal entities for the question of property and wealth distribution during the divorce proceedings. It may however be useful to expand the sample to include other ethnic groups and women.
Findings showed that 95% of the respondents' overall health status was slightly higher compared to that of the general U.S. population of the same age and sex. Factors identified with the favorable health status were male gender, married state, higher educational attainment, higher military rank and inclusion in the Air Force service. Lower quality of health was associated with increased use of health care, PTSD, disability, behavioral risk factors
Of course, the amount of transitions (the amount of divorce in the family) greatly increases the risk for children to settle in satisfying marriages and divorce themselves when young adults. Protective factors reducing impact of divorce on children The research question here is whether there are any factors that may be considered that are empirically proved to be able to mitigate the effect of divorce in children. Within the last decade, researchers
(Coleman et al., 2006) there are more significant differences between race and ethnic groups in beliefs about intergenerational assistance than are expected by chance the differences are not large. As expected, White European-Americans perceive that less help should be given to older adults than is true of African-Americans and Asian-Americans. Unexpectedly, European-Americans and Latinos rarely differ in their beliefs about intergenerational assistance. When differences exist among the three minority
family is separated, a father and mother divorced, and the child left on its own. Who is to take custody of the child? The word custody stolidly describes the upbringing of the child. Research has shown that most of the children who become delinquents in their pre-teen and teen age are single parented. This paper takes a look at the current research investigating young non-custodial fathers following separation and
divorce affects the personality of Latino children Family normally indicates to a group of persons directly associated with kinship, wherein the adult members are liable for the care of their children. The kinship involves genetic ties or ties coming out of marriage. Marriage is considered to be a sexual union between two adults, socially recognized and approved. Marriage and therefore the family in western societies are related to monogamy. A
Extreme, obsessive, and ongoing parental alienation can cause terrible psychological damage to children extending well into adulthood. Parental Alienation focuses on the alienating parent's behavior as opposed to the alienated parent's and alienated children's conditions." (PAS Website, 2009) There are stated to be seven specific stages of grief experienced in the Parental Alienation Syndrome (PAS) Grief Model. Those seven stages are as follows: Here is the grief model called "The 7