Child Psychology Research paper on Outcomes of Abuse or single parenting?

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I took Developmental Psychology last two semesters, which is a 258 class. Now I am taking 251, Child Psychology and I am to do a research paper on a topic of my choice.

In Dev Psychology, we had to pick a movie and explain development issues with a character. I picked the movie Enough, and explained the little girl who had an abusive Father towards the Mother, and then the Father dying, and outcomes of the single parenting. It was great, I got an 100% and was Wow'd on it.

Now -- I can focus on the outcomes of abuse, but it would be towards the child population. I'm assuming she is saying I need to focus on abuse towards the child, and not the Mother being abused. 
OR, I can pick single-parenting, and the outcomes of how a Father not being around will effect the child -- and both topics are good, and there are a lot of information on them (professor wished to be a Harvard professor and got hired at the community college, so my professor is strict and is making us use EBSCOhost...) but I'm unsure of the abuse one because of all of the possibilities it can go into.

foxprojoy · Accepted Answer

If you use the abuse topic, you could focus on child resiliency. This is a hot topic and I believe there is plenty of research to access to write a solid paper. I'll give you an example of the way this topic could go (you may have heard this before). The alcoholic father had twin sons. When one of the brothers grew up, he was asked why he didn't drink. He said, "Are you kidding, with a father like mine?"; Then the other brother was asked why he did drink, and he said,  "Are you kidding, with a father like mine?"  So researchers want to know how this can happen--how one brother can be more resilient than the other.

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Child Psychology Research paper on Outcomes of Abuse or single parenting?

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