When their parents divorce, preschoolers and young school-age children often fear that both parents may abandon them. experience depressed mood and become unruly. are less likely to display angry, defiant reactions than older children. typically display few changes in behavior?

Mike and his wife, amanda, are arguing about his in-laws. mike doesn’t want them to visit because they fight all the time when they come to the house and he is worried about the effect that their fighting is having on mike and amanda’s children. amanda finally yells out: “what about our fighting? ” mike replies, “well, that’s different. we fight because we’re having a disagreement, they fight because they hate each other! ” this is an example of