Many of you touched on the topic last class, but trauma happens to children during divorce. As much as we would like to believe that it doesn't happen, or won't happen to us, the question is: Can you have a "good" divorce?
Washington Post Article to start with:http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/14/AR2007121402038.html
(Clips will be on blog)
This isn't a question (at least in this period of the class) about the parents feeling(s) about each other, but the effects on the children.
In what circumstances is a divorce better than the parents being married? Then, regardless of the reason, parents are going to continue to divorce, so how do we help minimize the impact on the children? How do you work with families who ARE divorcing) (Rule: there is no loophole- no martial counseling to repair the marriage etc.). Divorce is imminent.
Use real research to back up your opinions. And avoid copy and paste as much as possible. Give credit where it is due but more paraphrasing! It gets tedious to read copy- paste articles. You are each reading things so you are cliff- notes-ing for each other, we aren't looking to read 25 research articles ourselves;)
Also, make sure your responses are meaningful...don't just respond to the first one you see with some vague agreement.
