Sociological Perspective: When parents decide to divorce, what impact does that have on the children? In my family, I was happy to see my parents divorce because of the fighting, but my brother sees it differently and saw that our family was being torn apart. How does politics, the media, law create discourse for us to talk about divorce? What is the popular discourse surrounding divorce? Why does our society not have language to talk about a positive divorce? My parents still get along great, granted there are still issues, but for the most part, things are good. I would say they had a positive divorce, and this isn't normal. Because of this, people don't often know how to talk about this type of divorce. What sort of stigma still exists surrounding divorce?
Analysis: Adams and Coltrane discuss the shifting framing of divorce in their article. They also discuss the history surrounding the politics of divorce as well as the stigma surrounding divorce. They mention how the recent administration (Bush Jr.) has really pushed for a marriage movements which has shifted sentiments of marriage and divorce. Our culture has shifted away from accepting divorce toward stigmatizing divorce. In their article, they also discuss how their is a lack of language for "positive divorce" and due to this, our culture is unable to cope with individuals who are friendly post-divorce. We cast divorce in a negative light and are unable to see divorce as anything but negative. With the shifting rhetoric in divorce and divorce reform, attitudes toward divorce shift and this affects the people who are involved and their children. As I mentioned above, my parents' divorce greatly impacted my brother. However, my parents had a positive divorce and continue to have a relationship and I believe this is beneficial.
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