| The purpose of this study was to explore the affects of divorce on Generation X women. Commitment values were not modeled correctly in the families of Generation X women with divorced parents. This being so, it was valuable to explore further the implications of this generation's difficulty with intimate relationships. A nonrandom, purposive sample of 15 individuals was recruited from a work contact, and part was recruited through snowballing to explore how divorce had affected their intimacy and commitment. The effects that emerged were both extremely harmful and, ironically, helpful at the same time. Most of the participants had responded to these effects by striving to choose a partner wisely, increasing communication with their partners, working on their personal mental health, and some had chosen not to marry at all. In a way, one could say that these adult daughters of divorced parents had somewhat been affected positively by their parents' divorce. |
