Divorce And Preschool Children
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CAS 301: Divorce
As a practicing preschool teacher and a child development major I will always be around young children. As I observe their daily lives I see that so many of them are from parents who are divorced. Which raises the question that I ask, “ Are children effected by divorce at the pr ....
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.... to the divorce of parents can be examined in three general age groups: preschool, latency (or elementary age) and adolescence”. Each of these age groups showed to respond differently. The preschool age children respond to marital separation with regression, anger, tantrums, aggression and anxiety. The Latency age group shows less impact although some symptoms are common such as anxiety and depression. Finally, the adolescence age showed symptoms such as trouble with the law, drugs, sexual ....
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