Divorce, remarrying, and aging families
Despite marriage being rewarding and fulfilling, there are some situations where marriage doesn’t work as couples would have hoped for. When situations like that arise divorce and separation can be routes that couples tend to take. Reasons for divorce may vary greatly as each family is different. Often when divorce happens and when children are involved, there is a different approach that parents take to make sure that their children get parental involvement from both parents. This causes a difference in approach compared to a nuclear intact family. There are multiple differences between the nuclear family and a remarried family. One of the major differences is that in remarried families marital and parental tasks are not exclusive to the rem dyad. Parental tasks are shared with the previous spouse whilst in the nuclear family, marital and parental tasks are exclusive to the marital dyad. Another evident difference is that in the nuclear family members belong to only one fa...