CLD 231 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Stepfamily, Family Therapy

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Early Childhood Studies
• Course: CLD 231
• Professor: Audrey Huberman

Document Summary

Cld 231 families in canadian context i. Just over 1/3 of marriages end prior to 30th anniversary: 38% (does not include common law) Multifaceted life event: emotional, social and economic. Devastating effect on parent child relationship: disorganizing effect. Process extends over a number of years (2/3 years in lives of children: attitudes. (cid:862)best solutio(cid:374) to diffi(cid:272)ulties that (cid:272)a(cid:374)(cid:374)ot (cid:271)e resol(cid:448)ed(cid:863) (cid:862)alternative to an unhappy marriage rather than a personal failure(cid:863) Impacts may be result of secondary issues: decreased well-being prior to divorce, poverty as a result, temperament/personality, quality of parental relationship prior to divorce, adjustment of custodial parent, parent post separation relationship. Wise to look at divorce: not in terms of specific outcomes, with the expectation that parents and children will experience certain adversities. Fa(cid:272)tors that may affe(cid:272)t (cid:272)hildre(cid:374)"s adjust(cid:373)e(cid:374)t: amount of parental conflict, number of changes after the divorce, economic changes.