The Impact Of Family Formation Change On The Cognitive,...

In â€Å"The Impact of Family Formation Change on the Cognitive, Social, and Emotional Well-Being of the Next Generation in the section by Paul R. Amato, the author argues that single parent families are affected by many different things. This can change the social and emotional well-being of the child, which can lead to bad disciple. Children’s well-being is the issue addressed in â€Å"The Impact of Family Formation Change on the Cognitive, Social, and Emotional Well-Being of the Next Generation† by Paul R. Amato. The thesis of this essay is how being a single parent can differ from duel parenting. The author’s main claim is how children growing up with both parents are less likely than other children to have any kind of problems such as social†¦show more content†¦Half of recently divorced mother’s custody families and half from continuously duel parent families. The first year of their study, the children with divorced parents exhibited more behavioral and emotional problems than the children with duel married parents. However, two years after divorce children with single parents no longer had a high number of problems, although still a few difficulties for boys. The author refutes this idea by saying that despite this temporary improvement, a later wave of data collection revealed that the remarriage of the single parent was followed by additional problems among the children, especially with their daughters. His conclusion is that trying to make sense of this research can be frustrating, because the results of each study can vary considerably: some serious negative effects of divorce, others modest effects, and yet others have no effects. This is due to the different scenarios of studies like for example, it is important to consider the ages of the children, the reason why the family became a single family. In order to make research work in such complex body of research, social scientists use a technique known as meta- analysis. By using an effect size for each study (which reflects the difference between two groups by using an effect size for each study (which reflects the difference between two