Family issues in chapter 13 caught my attention. I realized how much family impacts children and either helps or hurts in the shaping of them. This chapter talked a lot about the detrimental effects that moving from home to home has on children. Aside from college I’ve lived in the same house for 22 years and my parents are still married. It made me wonder how different my life would have been if I moved a lot. I can definitely see the impact that moving has had on some of my friends. One of my friends has moved 11 times and her parents are both divorced and now re-married. She barely trusts anyone and acted out a lot over the years, getting in trouble with the law. According to the text parents disturb a child’s development if they push their children to take sides in a marital dispute or if they give one child authority over another. Each year about 16% of all U.S. children move from one home to another (Berger, 2008, Pg. 350). I wondered how many of those parents knew how much it would affect their children in the long run.
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