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Subject: Re: Divorce and adolescent development

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A.J. Stich (divorce and academics)

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Date Posted: 15:51:53 03/29/08 Sat
In reply to: Kendall 's message, "Divorce and adolescent development" on 21:55:10 03/23/08 Sun

Your post was very interesting to me. As some people in the class know, I'm a part of teach for america. This organization sort of holds the opinion that low-income students, who are more susceptible to come from broken homes, are to perform just as well as wealthier families. I have struggled making sense of this perception because I know that coming from a broken home has psychological effects that transcend the home life and into the classroom.

Reading this post reminded me of a good friend of mine who's parents went through a divorce in middle school. His school work struggled as well as his peer status adjustment.

It's clear that students who deal with divorce do have extra hurdles to go over. Therefore, I feel like it's a bit naive for my organization to hold the mind set that divorce is a misnomer as it relates to classroom educational progress

>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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