1. Divorce Affects On Children Literature
Jazlinne
Orcutt Academy High School
Frosh Core
March 1,2013
2. Why I Chose This Topic
• The reason I chose this
topic is because I’m a
child of a divorce
parents. At first it did
affect me emotionally
and it did affect me in
my education.
3. Graph
Are you in a divorce family?
39% Yes
61% No
Data obtained from self-generated survey. TAKE SURVEY HERE!
4. BACKGROUND INFO
• Each year over a million
children suffer the
divorce of their parents
and by 1999, half of all
American children
reaching their
eighteenth birthday and
who were born to
married parents will
have experienced the
divorce of their parents
5. My Thesis
Even though, contemporary children’s
literature portrays divorce as having a
negative effect on children because it shows
less high school graduation for children of
divorce, it shows children from divorced
families as having a diminished capacity to
learn.
6. Not Enough Education
Many children in divorce
families show that they
have a diminished
capacity to learn.
7. The absence of the father lowers cognitive
test scores for young children in general, but
especially for girls’ math scores.
8. When parents are moving into different
houses it tends to decrease school
performance for most children.
9. Graph
Should the children have a say
in their parents divorce?
12 11 As you can
10 see, 59% of the
8 8 people chose
8
6 Neither agree
4 Nor Disagree
2 and Disagree.
0 0 But, 40.7% of the
0
Strongly Agree Niether Strongly Disagree people chose
agree Agree disagree Strongly agree.
Nor
Disagree
Data obtained from self-generated survey. TAKE SURVEY HERE!
10. No High School Graduation
Children in high school can
be affected by divorce in
their education and also
can cause them not to
gradate high school.
11. Among girls and boys who have completed
high school, there is a thirty-three percent
lower divorce rate among their parents
compared to girls and boys who drop out of
high school.
12. Children from divorced homes suffer
academically and they experience high levels
of behavioral problems. Their grades
suffer, and they are less likely to graduate
from high school.
13. Memorable closing
• Try to help out your children in their
academics and their future career. Talk them
about the divorce. Just help them out
through the hard times.
14. Work Sited
• "Divorce." n.d. www.encyclopedia.com/topic/divorce.aspx. 31
January 2013. <www.encyclopedia.com/topic/divorce.aspx>.
• "Divorce - Effects On Children, Effects On Couples, Effects On
Parents." n.d. family.jrank.org/pages/413/Divorce.html. 26
January 2013. <family.jrank.org/pages/413/Divorce.html>.
• "The Effects of Divorce on Children." n.d.
http://www.worldcongress.org/wcf2_spkrs/wcf2_fagan.htm. 01
February 2013.
<http://www.worldcongress.org/wcf2_spkrs/wcf2_fagan.htm>.
