Over half of all children will live in a single parent home during the course of their childhood, which is usually a single mother.
Most adults who get divorced do attempt marriage again with a new partner, which has even more of a chance to end up in divorce (Hetherington, Bridges, and Insabella, 1998).
Individual Risk and Vulnerability Perspective
One theoretical perspective is an individual
risk and vulnerability perspective.
When a parent and even a child demonstrate certain attributes, they then can be prone to being vulnerable to adversity because of these attributes.
Many adults have behavior aspects that set them up to have marriage problems.
Further, when an adult has physiological issues, they chose a mate who also has these same difficulties. This creates difficulties in the relationship with both mates having issues and then trying to be functional in the relationship.
This is referred to as the marital selectivity hypothesis. In most cases then, these couples produce children who learn to develop these same kinds of traits (Hetherington, Bridges, and Insabella, 1998).
When a parent and even a child demonstrate certain attributes, they then can be prone to being vulnerable to adversity because of these attributes.
Many adults have behavior aspects that set them up to have marriage problems.
Further, when an adult has physiological issues, they chose a mate who also has these same difficulties. This creates difficulties in the relationship with both mates having issues and then trying to be functional in the relationship.
This is referred to as the marital selectivity hypothesis. In most cases then, these couples produce children who learn to develop these same kinds of traits (Hetherington, Bridges, and Insabella, 1998).
I
have seen this personally many times with volunteering at my church with newly
divorced individuals. They become and feel desperate to have a new mate
immediately and they seek out a mate who is as dysfunctional as they are.
Together, they spiral down and are faced with adversity because of the poor choices that they make. They suffer and their children suffer as well from their poor choices and the consequences of them.
Together, they spiral down and are faced with adversity because of the poor choices that they make. They suffer and their children suffer as well from their poor choices and the consequences of them.
Reference
Hetherington,
E. M., Bridges, M., & Insabella, G. M. (1998). What matters? What does not?
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what are the attributes?
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