Divorce Does Not Affect Educational Achievement In Children.

... HYPOTHESIS / AIM Divorce does not affect educational achievement in children. My aim is to explore whether divorce affects the academic achievement of school children at GCSE level. My research relies on examining this family relationship against the examination achievement of any child involved. Divorce through my G.C.S.E's wasn't too big a distraction for me and effected me little at school but with increasing divorce rate its interesting to see how far this is true to others. My aim therefore is to find out if this is the case for the majority or the minority of people in the same situation and find out if other factors contribute to my results. CONTEXTS AND CONCEPTS Monica Cockett and John Tripp's research in 1994 at the Joseph Rowntree Foundation named 'Children living in reordered families' is to this topic as it concentrates to a certain extent on the effect of divorce on educational achievement. The authors looked

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