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Subject: Divorce and adolescent development

Author:
Kendall

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Date Posted: 21:55:10 03/23/08 Sun

I was very interested in the section on divorce in chapter 9. It brought back a lot of memories of my parents divorce. My parents got divorced when I was two years old, remaried when I was eleven and divorced again when I was sixteen. While I obviously don't remember the first divorce I do remember the second one. It seemed somewhat normal to me at the time because I had been use to my parents splitting up from time to time. But in reading about the adjustment problems that adolescents have after a divorce I started noticing some of those things in my life. My junior and senior year of high school were my worst academically, I skipped school a lot, was late almost every day, barely passed the classes I had to have and purposely failed the ones I new I didn't need. I had always attributed this behavior to adolescents in general as well as other things such as the new freedom of having a car and emotional issues with the death of my brother a year earlier. While all of those things obviously contributed to my behavior after reading this chapter I can see how my parents divorce had a greater effect on me than I had originally thought.

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Re: Divorce and adolescent development	A.J. Stich (divorce and academics)	15:51:53 03/29/08 Sat