BI110 Study Guide - Teenage Pregnancy, Troubled Families
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1. the purpose of dr. stroschiens research is to prove that couples who stay in a bad relationship for the sake of kids aren"t actually making the right choice. The most harm to a child"s mental health is done in the years before parents split up. 2. the issue of marriage and family (this research was published in) 3. she conducted her investigation by looking at divorce as a process. She tracked the effects of it before, after and during. She compared children whose parents divorced before between 1994 and 1998 with children whose parents remained together. 4. the results of this study add to the understanding of the effects of divorce in the sense that before a divorce took place, kids whose parents eventually divorced had higher levels of anxiety. Those who divorce also tend to be younger and report higher levels dysfunction and depression and lower levels of marital satisfaction . Troubled families are at risk for both divorce and child mental illness.
