COMM 4243 Midterm: Family Communication Exam 2 Review
6 Nov 2016
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Long term: more likely to drop out of school, less family solidarity in those families who had lived together in a single-parent home. Interpersonal outcomes: friendship networks, attachment styles, single custodial fathers. Less supervision and monitoring of their children. Lower expectations for children to attend college. Choosing to reveal or withhold information from certain family members. Relation to power person who left the relationship has more power. Regulation of emotion: harder for the person who wanted to stay in the relationship. Avoidance as positive strategy: bringing a their party as a mediator can be beneficial. Using child as messenger/source of information: this is not good for anyone because it puts the kids in a tight spot. Custodial parents" social support networks become smaller so often begin to confide with children: can be positive or negative, role reversals. Deciding how much is appropriate to disclose to the child about the divorce.
