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K. Batts

UWRT-1103-022

Professor Jizi

4 April 2018

Annotated Bibliography

Hopf, Sarah Marie. “Risk and Resilience in Children Coping with Parental Divorce.” DUJS

Online, 31 Oct. 2013, dujs.dartmouth.edu/2010/05/risk-and-resilience-in-children-coping-with-

parental-divorce/#.WsWiRUxFyhd.

The article Risk and Resilience in Children Coping with Parental Divorce relates to my

inquiry in that they both are investigating kids that have divorced parents and the affects they

experience because of it. At the beginning of my inquiry I had not thought about the outliers that

are involved in this investigation. When researching affects you must be careful with clinical

trials because every child is different and ever divorce story is different. This source gave me

many statistics on children with divorced parents and their external and internal behaviors. They

also gave statistics on children with married parents so that I was able to compare and see the

differences. Although this source provided quality statistics, it did not cover the emotional side to

my inquiry. Moving forward from this source I would like to see more concerning children with

divorced parents in different races and socioeconomic groups.

The author of this article is Sarah-Marie Hopf of Dartmouth. The article was published

on Dartmouth Undergraduate Journal of Science in 2010. This article is a credible source

because of the school’s affiliation. Also, at the end of the article the author lists her citations
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which are all from other credible sources. The Journal of Science at Dartmouth would not have

allowed for an article to be posted that was not credible which is why I trust it.

Scelfo, Julie. "Angela Duckworth on Passion, Grit and Success." The New York Times. The New
York Times, 08 Apr. 2016. Web. 10 Apr. 2018.
<https://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/10/education/edlife/passion-grit-success.html>.
Angela Duckworth’s opinion on grit and the connection it has to success brings a new

side to my inquiry. Although her interview and her expertise are not the effects of divorce on

children, Duckworth points out the fact that having grit is a huge part in who people become and

what they do with their life. Children who are born into divorced parents or go through that later

in life are given a type of grit that I believe others might not have. This grit can be used to lead

you into life full of accomplishments and success. This interview with Duckworth allowed me to

see that there are studies about grit and determination that prove that even though a child has

divorced parents they can be just as successful or even more than children with parents who are

married. After reading this interview I want to further investigate the grit scale and am interested

in seeing if somewhere down the line it becomes a more commonly used scale for academic

purposes.

I consider the information given by Angela Duckworth in the interview extremely

credible due to the fact that it came from her and because the well-known New York Times

posted it. Duckworth received her graduate degree in psychology at the University of

Pennsylvania, where she studied this subject. Also, she speaks of her lab in the interview who

has done tests and has compared it to being better than SAT scores and other known tests.
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"Kids' Obesity Risk Rises with Parents' Divorce: Study." Asia News Monitor, Jun 10 2014,

ProQuest. Web. 9 Apr. 2018.

Although I would love to be able to say that as a child who had divorced parents I didn’t

see any effects from it, that would be a lie. In my experience children sometimes are more

affected by the experience than parents are because although a man or woman might get over the

split the child will forever be in the middle of the two. This article talks about one of the negative

effects, the increased chances of obesity. Divorced families cope in many ways and usually can

be through food that is not the best for you. A study completed in Norway showed that 63% of

3,000 boys were more likely to be overweight than the boys with parents who were still together.

The statistics from this article allow me to see the negatives to divorce and how it truly can affect

children. After reading this article I have a hope that one day the actions of parents will not cause

future generations to be obese.

This newspaper article was published in Thailand, Bangkok. It was published by the Asia

News Monitor. It would be considered credible because it was published by a credible

newspaper and has statistics that were resulted from tests done with credible sources.

Morrison, Sheala C., et al. "Mechanisms behind Prolonged Effects of Parental Divorce: A

Phenomenological Study." Journal of Divorce & Remarriage, vol. 58, no. 1, Jan. 2017, pp. 44-

63. EBSCOhost, doi:10.1080/10502556.2016.1262652.

Authors of the Journal of Divorce and Remarriage have put together an article that fits

perfectly along with my inquiry. This article is an updated take on how it has affected children

and into their adult life. Nine people were a part of this study. This source also dove into how the
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candidates were affected in their own relationships. From the five sources I have information

pertaining to the effects on adults, children, obesity, and determination or grit. I hope that I will

be able to use this information to learn more about the subject and used it in my every day life as

an adult who has had divorced parents since the age of 3 months old.

This article is part of a book on divorce created by three professionals in the Department

of Marriage and Family Therapy at the University of Nevada. Within the article the authors

included all their credible sources and gave details to their study they completed and how it was

an accurate study. This source is considered credible because of the background knowledge that

all three of the authors have in the area.

Cherlin, AJ, FF Furstenberg, KE Kiernan, DR Morrison, JO Teitler, and PK Robins.

"Longitudinal Studies of Effects of Divorce on Children in Great Britain and the United States."

Science. American Association for the Advancement of Science, 07 June 1991. Web. 10 Apr.

2018. <http://science.sciencemag.org/content/252/5011/1386>.

This article gave me more statistics on the effects of children with divorced parents by

following two samples, one from Great Britain, and the other from the United States. The

children were examined at the ages of 7 to 11 and then again at 11 to 16. The article relates to my

inquiry because it examines the behaviors of the children, family difficulties, and school

achievements. Although this is an older article I believe that children and how they are affected

by their parents has roughly remained the same. After reading the abstract I became curious with

the data and how it might be similar or different between America and Great Britain. If I it is
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different I wonder why it is and how can parents learn to make divorces more acceptable for

their children and less of a burden.

I found this article to be credible because of the authors background knowledge. The

study was put on by the Department of Sociology at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. This

study is still well-used in 2018 and has been published by the American Association for the

Advancement of Science, a known organization.