Divorce

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differ. Researchers do not
agree on which of the child-raising practices is best. But it is known that
parents provide role models for their children and that children rely on their
parents to teach them about the world.

When a culture's values and traditions undergo a rapid change it becomes
difficult to decide which attitudes and beliefs children should be taught. As
one researcher has stated, “today's children are the first generation to be
raised amid doubt about the role prescriptions that have long gone unchallenged.
This makes their socialization especially difficult. Traditionally,
socialization was a process of raising the young to fill major roles in society
when the present incumbents vacated them. Yet today we do not know what type of
society our children will inherit, nor the roles for which they should be
prepared. ”(pp.34) Divorce along married couples is the most well-documented
and studied of the various ways relationships end. According to ...

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why do people separate? Unmarried couples give us a number of
reasons for separation. In one study, researchers followed over 200 couples for
a three year period. “During this period of time, more that one-half of them
ended the relationship. Seventy-eight percent of the men and women listed
boredom as the major reason for the separation.(Kolata: pp, 42) Apparently
their romantic, passionate love had lost it's power and there was little else
between them. Couples reported other differences in several areas as caused for
breaking up, including differences in interests, hobbies, outside of the home
activities, religion, intelligence, and education. “Almost two-sixth percent of
the ...

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