What differences have researchers found between children of divorce and other children?
What will be an ideal response?
Children of divorce have more feelings of depression, distress, grief, anger, anxiety, shame, fear of abandonment,
and responsibility for the divorce; more disobedience, aggresion, antisocial behavior, criminal behavior, and lack of
self-control; lower grades in school, lower school attendance, and higher drop-out rates in high school; lower rates
of college attendance, and lower annual incomes in adulthood; higher rates of teenage pregnancy; and lower
marriage rates, higher cohabitation rates, and higher divorce rates when they do marry.
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Piaget's primary research technique involved
a. rigorous experimental methodology. b. long questionnaires. c. extensive surveys. d. careful observation. e. twin studies.
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A) the similarity-attractiveness principle. B) the balance principle. C) the proximity-attraction principle. D) the equality-attraction principle.
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A) ?bronchitis. B) ?allergy. C) ?emphysema. D) ?bulimia.