Psychology

Jill was 11 years old when her parents divorced amicably. Her mother got custody of Jill and then, 2 years later, got married again. Discuss some of the research findings concerning divorce and remarriage that may help us to understand what effects the divorce and remarriage may have had on Jill.


Research findings have proven that adolescents whose parents have divorced, when compared with adolescents whose parents had not, were more likely “to have academic problems, to show externalized problems (such as acting out and delinquency) and internalized problems (such as anxiety and depression), to be less socially responsible, to have less-competent intimate relationships, to drop out of school, to become sexually active at an earlier age, to take drugs, to associate with antisocial...