The Effects Of Divorce On Children And The Association...

Taylor Rydberg Sociology 134 Schweingruber 9/30/14 Library Research Project I’m sure everyone has heard that roughly fifty percent of marriages end in divorce. I’m not entirely sure that static is still true, but still a lot of marriages do end in divorce. I am a child of divorce. My parents got divorced when I was around five years old. I’m always very interested in the affects divorce has on children, since I am one. Our society has changed to mostly accept divorce. I think divorce is related to the course material because it’s happening a lot in our society; sociology is the study of social behavior, organization, and development. I’m interested in how divorced fathers affect their children’s future. In the research paper, Parenting†¦show more content†¦They also wanted to see how the children reacted to their fathers parenting them, instead of their mother. The study found that non-residential fathers were less controlling and less supportive than fathers that have joint custody with the mother and married fathers. â€Å"We conclude that, even after a divorce, fathers have the capacity to enhance children’s self-esteem and we suggest that future research should investigate this capacity,† (Bastaits, Ponnet, Mortelmans 1). In the next research paper, Increasing Our Understanding of Divorced Fathers Who Have Infrequent Contact With Their Children by James Dudley; Dudley wanted individuals who read this paper to understand the ever-increasing awareness that not a lot of research is being done about divorced fathers. Most studies that have been done focus on mothers who have custody of their children. Dudley intended this paper for readers that want to help divorced fathers stay involved or become more involved in their child’s life. Dudley studied eighty-four divorced fathers out of two hundred and fifty-five divorced fathers who took part in his study. He chose the eighty-four fathers out of the others because these fathers had way less f requent contact with their children. Dudley’s criteria for his study were that the fathers had to be divorced, one of their children had to be under nineteen years old, and live in Philadelphia. This study used a purposive sampling approach, meaning that any father that