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Hispanic and Anglo Students

The purpose of this study was to examine for differences in the intellectual achievement of Hispanic and Anglo children, all of whom were between seven and nine years of age and had parents who were recently divorced (parents had divorced between one year and one and one/half year prior to the study). It was hypothesized that Hispanic children would be more susceptible to the debilitating effects of divorce on intellectual achievement than would Anglo children. Findings of the study were in accord with this hypothesis. Results were discussed in terms of culture influences.

According to research conducted by Glick and Lin (1986) as well as Wegman (1986), more than one million children in the United States are involved in divorces each year. Further, the authors estimated that about half of the children born in the late 1970s and early 1980s will experience parental divorce, spending an average of five years living in single parent homes before the custodial parent remarries.

The effects of divorce on children can be quite negative; they include emotional distress manifested in depression and loneliness (Wallerstein & Kelley, 1980) as well as feelings of vulnerability and deprivation (Wallerstein, 1983). In addition, academic achievement (grades, school test scores, etc.), intellectual achievement (IQ, and other measures of cognitive and intellectual performance) and peer relationships can be debilitated (Epstein, 1984).

In other words, children of divorce experience adjustment problems at the psychological, social, intellectual, and academic level. And many of these children remain maladjusted for years afterward, some well into adulthood (Sue, Sue & Sue, 1994).

A key point that can be noted regarding studies on the effects of divorce on children is that most of them did not use samples of Hispanic children. This leads to the speculation that maladjustment problems (debilitation of psychological, social, intellectua...

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