Divorce In America
Each year many American children suffer the divorce of their parents. Children that will be born this year to couples that are married will eventually see their parents’ divorce before they are even grown. Further in the content of my text we will discuss some of the damaging effects of divorce, we will also look at the divorce rates in other countries as well as America, and we will discuss some the issues that are tearing American families apart.
It has been found that children of divorced parents perform more poorly in all of the important subjects in school. They are more likely to repeat a grade and to have higher drop-out rates and not go college or attend and don’t graduate. Families that were not poor before the divorce see their income drop drastically by as much as 50%. A lot of the children that have been involved in a divorced seem to become victims of abuse. Not only do they experience physical abuse, they have a lot of emotional problems that causes them......
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