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The document discusses how divorce can negatively impact children, especially those with special needs, as studies have shown higher rates of emotional and behavioral issues, lower academic performance, and increased risk of mental health disorders in children from divorced homes. It notes that divorce can result in loss of cognitive stimulation and parental engagement for children. The study suggests that divorce may have even greater consequences for children with special needs by damaging their self-esteem and sense of self-worth.

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SPED 114 Assignment

The document discusses how divorce can negatively impact children, especially those with special needs, as studies have shown higher rates of emotional and behavioral issues, lower academic performance, and increased risk of mental health disorders in children from divorced homes. It notes that divorce can result in loss of cognitive stimulation and parental engagement for children. The study suggests that divorce may have even greater consequences for children with special needs by damaging their self-esteem and sense of self-worth.

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PALLA, Beatrize Ann W.

February 13, 2019 (Wednesday)


BEED SPED 4 SPED 114

Family Structure is defined as the composition and membership of the family and the organization and
patterning of relationships among individual family members. In planning health care for a family member or
the entire family, an awareness of that family's structure may be important. According to my readings, parents of
children with special needs actually have a higher divorce rate, if by chance the parents of a child with special
needs actually divorce and separate this will impact greatly the child’s holistic development. In my reading of the
study conducted by Dr. Jane Anderson , when a child experiences parental divorce, there are significant losses
that must be acknowledged such as: The child may lose cognitive and academic stimulation, because
studies show that children in divorced homes have less language stimulation and that children of divorced
parents are more likely to have lower grade point averages (GPAs) and be asked to repeat a year of school; The
child may have a higher risk of emotional distress, a study of almost one million children in Sweden
demonstrated that children growing up with single parents were more than twice as likely to experience a serious
psychiatric disorder, commit or attempt suicide, or develop an alcohol addiction and children of single parents
are twice as likely to have emotional and behavioral problems. There are clearly negative long-term
consequences of divorce to children and parents alike and given this consequences many children have never
had a full “recovery” as each special event, holiday, or celebration reminds the child of his/her loss. Given this
scenario, if the parents of a child with special needs separate, if will affect also there child. The study was
conducted with families that have children who do not have any disability and yet they have suffered
emotionally and academically what more if this happened to children with special needs? They might end up
think that their parents divorced because one of their parents does not like to have a child with special need and
end up blaming himself for it.

Reference: Anderson J. (2014). The impact of family structure on the health of children: Effects of divorce. The Linacre
quarterly, 81(4), 378-87.

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