Impact of Parental Separation on School Engagement

Impact of Parental Separation on School Engagement
With reference to Middle School Years in South Australia
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6/17/2019

PARENTAL SEPARATION IMPACT ON SCHOOL ENGAGEMENT
Contents
RESEARCH QUESTION.................................................................................................. 3
BACKGROUND & SIGNIFICANCE...................................................................................3
Significance of the research............................................................................................. 3
Literature Review......................................................................................................... 4
METHODOLOGY........................................................................................................... 5
Data Collection Method.................................................................................................. 5
Data Analysis Method.................................................................................................... 6
SAMPLING STRUCTURE................................................................................................ 7
Sampling Method......................................................................................................... 8
Access to Sample.......................................................................................................... 8
ETHICS........................................................................................................................ 8
Voluntary Participation.................................................................................................. 9
Informed consent.......................................................................................................... 9
Confidentiality............................................................................................................. 9
REFERENCES............................................................................................................. 10
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RESEARCH QUESTION
How School engagement has influenced by parental separation, during middle school years in
South Australia?
BACKGROUND & SIGNIFICANCE
Parental Separation simply means ending of the relationship of a couple, due to this their child or
children getting affected. During the separation process and after it for some time both the parties
involved have some feelings as well as memories and they fade as time passes. This mechanism
can be understandable by adults. However, the children also get involved in it by default. The
influence of this on children may get them in tragic situations (Dweck, 2013).
In the middle school years, the kids are expected to be entering their teenage and those years of
teenage are very important for their overall development. This stage helps them in defining their
behavior for the future. In order to identify the impact of parental separation on school
engagement of children during their middle school years this research is conducted. There are
many types of research in this filed however not a single study has been done in South Australian
schools for the concerned topic; hence this research will focus on that region (Brown et al.,
2010).
Significance of the research
It is already mentioned in the above lines the main concept and reason behind current research is
parental separation and its impact on their kids. The separation process between parents may take
a shorter time or longer time spending on the prevailing circumstances. The impact of this
duration and the emotions involved within can change the thinking of children about the
situations, things or persons. Children are considered the future of every country as well as can
help in the betterment of the world and its resources. This makes it is important to take care of
kids as much as one can. However, the divorce or separation between parents can harm the kids
involved (Haimi & Lerner, 2016).
The harm can be related to some factors like change in their house, school, name or it can also be
related to change in the members of their family. The impact of the separation of parents on their
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children can be short term or long term. There are many examples that prove that due to
separation the children get affected surely; however, its duration may vary child to child.
According to experts, there are approximately 50000 divorces are granted in Australia in 2009,
among them almost 25000 divorces involved children (Pruett et al., 2014). In South Australia
itself, almost half of the data are from there. The results of many of the studies done by experts
indicate towards the truth that child involved in divorce or separation process, mostly fantasize
about them getting back together of their parents and becoming a whole family again.
Literature Review
This section deeply identified and analyzed various researches that are already done on the
current issue. With this section in this research, an attempt is made to identify some of the main
researches done on the same issue all over the world as well as their analysis. The analysis can
help in filling the research gap with the current study by taking South Australia as the basis of
the whole research (Winston, 2016).
In 2016 Thea Brown and his fellow researches through a study titled, “Shared parenting and
parental involvement in children's schooling following separation and divorce” attempted to
identify the influence and extent to which the Family Law (Shared Parental Responsibility)
Amendment Act 2006. The research team of Monash University undertook the study. This study
was done in schools of Western Australia and in this study, every element of this issue is
analyzed like parents, children, the school involved, teachers, etc. they conclude that prevailing
issues of separation of parents are affecting the children (Bethell et al., 2014).
According to a book titled, “What Works with Children and Adolescents?: A Critical Review of
Psychological Interventions with Children. Adolescents and their families”, written by Alan Carr
in 2013, have examined and identified the best ways as well as methods which work best to deal
with adolescents and children as their family or parents separate.
There are many other studies also like one by Edward Kruk in 2010, Marsha Kline Pruett in
2014, etc. the aim of all these studies basically revolves around the issue of parental separation
and school engagement of kids (Epstein, 2012).
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