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CAS 301: Divorce As a practicing preschool teacher and a child development major I will always be around young children. As I observe their daily lives I see that so many of them are from parents who are divorced. Which raises the question that I ask, “ Are chi ....

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.... general age groups: preschool, latency (or elementary age) and adolescence”. Each of these age groups showed to respond differently. The preschool age children respond to marital separation with regression, anger, tantrums, aggression and anxiety. The Latency age group shows less impact although some symptoms are common such as anxiety and depression. Finally, the adolescence age showed symptoms such as trouble with the law, drugs, sexual acting out and running away. (Hodges and Bloom, 1984) Because my interest is in the early years of child development I focused mainly on the preschool age children. Hodges and Bloom define this preschool focu ....