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Distance danger for 'divorce' kids
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02,00.html Distance danger for 'divorce' kids By Christine Jackman, Social affairs writer June 26, 2003 CHILDREN whose parents divorce, and who are then separated from one parent by more than an hour's drive, suffer significant health and emotional problems. The finding, in a study released today, challenges a common legal presumption that what is best for the custodial parent - usually the mother - is also best for the children of that parent. It also supports Prime Minister John Howard's recent push for greater access for divorced fathers, with equally shared custody as the norm, rather than the exception. The study by psychologists and legal experts at Arizona State University and the University of California, Berkeley, is believed to be the first of its kind to examine the direct effects on children of parental moves after divorce. It found evidence that children suffer long-term health, emotional and financial problems after a non-custodial parent moves away, or when the children are relocated to a new area by their custodial parent. The survey of 602 university students who were children of divorced parents found "moveaways" scored worse on 11 out of 14 separate measures of wellbeing. "As compared with divorced families in which neither parent moved, students from families in which one parent moved . . . felt more hostility in their interpersonal relations (and) suffered more distress related to their parents' divorce, perceived their parents less favourably as sources of emotional support and as role models," the study, published in the Journal of Family Psychology, found. The "moveaways" also scored significantly lower when asked to rate their "general physical health, their general life satisfaction and their personal and emotional adjustment". Father-of-two Erik Reurts, 33, said parents had to make sacrifices in their own lives if they wanted to preserve their children's wellbeing after divorce. That might mean missing out on a good job opportunity or refusing to move for a new relationship. After his divorce, the Danish-born telecommunications engineer won joint custody of Casey, now 4, and Samuel, 2. But he has been unable to find a job near his western Sydney home with the flexibility to allow him to continue caring for the children, who spend alternate weeks with each parent. He applauded the Prime Minister's push for rebuttable joint custody. "Children should not have to choose between parents," Mr Reurts said. "I believe I have a lot of qualities and skills that children will benefit from throughout their lives. But it's also in their interests to see their mother, and it would not be fair for them to (have to choose)." -- "The true value of democracy is to serve as a sanitary precaution protecting us against the abuse of power...In its present form ..It has ceased to be a safeguard of personal liberty, a restraint from abuse of government power..It has on the contrary, become the main cause of a progressive and accelerating increase in the power and weight of the administrative machine." Friedrich A. Hayek |
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Distance danger for 'divorce' kids
I wondered about the claim regarding health....
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au...6655997%255E27 02,00.html Distance danger for 'divorce' kids By Christine Jackman, Social affairs writer June 26, 2003 CHILDREN whose parents divorce, and who are then separated from one parent by more than an hour's drive, suffer significant health and emotional problems. The finding, in a study released today, challenges a common legal presumption that what is best for the custodial parent - usually the mother - is also best for the children of that parent. It also supports Prime Minister John Howard's recent push for greater access for divorced fathers, with equally shared custody as the norm, rather than the exception. The study by psychologists and legal experts at Arizona State University and the University of California, Berkeley, is believed to be the first of its kind to examine the direct effects on children of parental moves after divorce. It found evidence that children suffer long-term health, emotional and financial problems after a non-custodial parent moves away, or when the children are relocated to a new area by their custodial parent. The survey of 602 university students who were children of divorced parents found "moveaways" scored worse on 11 out of 14 separate measures of wellbeing. "As compared with divorced families in which neither parent moved, students from families in which one parent moved . . . felt more hostility in their interpersonal relations (and) suffered more distress related to their parents' divorce, perceived their parents less favourably as sources of emotional support and as role models," the study, published in the Journal of Family Psychology, found. The "moveaways" also until I read: ************************************************** ************************ ************ scored significantly lower when asked to rate their "general physical health, their general life satisfaction and their personal and emotional adjustment". ************************************************** ************************ ************ In at least the health area, the lower score is based on how the children themselves PERCIEVE the quality. Until I read that part, I saw just another study which happened to arrive at the correct conclusion, but got there by accident. The first sentence of the article: "CHILDREN whose parents divorce, and who are then separated from one parent by more than an hour's drive, suffer significant health and emotional problems", puts a crackpot face on the whole article, making it much less likely that the unindoctrinated reader will give it any credit. I have to wonder if it was given that slant intentionally by a woman who didn't have her heart in her assignment? Mel Gamble Father-of-two Erik Reurts, 33, said parents had to make sacrifices in their own lives if they wanted to preserve their children's wellbeing after divorce. That might mean missing out on a good job opportunity or refusing to move for a new relationship. After his divorce, the Danish-born telecommunications engineer won joint custody of Casey, now 4, and Samuel, 2. But he has been unable to find a job near his western Sydney home with the flexibility to allow him to continue caring for the children, who spend alternate weeks with each parent. He applauded the Prime Minister's push for rebuttable joint custody. "Children should not have to choose between parents," Mr Reurts said. "I believe I have a lot of qualities and skills that children will benefit from throughout their lives. But it's also in their interests to see their mother, and it would not be fair for them to (have to choose)." -- "The true value of democracy is to serve as a sanitary precaution protecting us against the abuse of power...In its present form ..It has ceased to be a safeguard of personal liberty, a restraint from abuse of government power..It has on the contrary, become the main cause of a progressive and accelerating increase in the power and weight of the administrative machine." Friedrich A. Hayek |
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