Final Summary/Reaction

I found it so interesting to see what people thought about divorce.  I couldn't believe the amount of people who had at least one divorced relative in their family; the majority of the people who I surveyed had at least one divorce in their family.  My predictions were surprisingly accurate. Most of the people I surveyed agreed that the media has had an impact on the increased divorce rates; for the people whose parents are divorced, the oldest age was 13 when their parents got one; and for who they live with, it was someone split.  I really enjoyed conducting this survey. I received a lot of great insights and perspectives from a lot of different people. I was especially interested in reading why people think the divorce rate is increasing and the  surveys of the people's whose parents are divorced.  I really like the results that I got from both my surveys; I think they were a success.

Revised Summary/Plan/Update

My survey was a success! I made 2 different surveys (one for a general view on divorce of people whose parents aren't divorced and one for people whose parents are divorced).  I surveyed 17 people whose parents aren't divorced and 10 people whose parents are divorced (I hope to get a few more of each though to get more results). Within those 27 people, only 2 of them were males (my brothers); the rest were classmates. I would like to get a couple of adults' opinions as well within the next few days. I think the survey worked for the most part.  However, I think my free-response question for why they think more and more couples are getting divorced was difficult for some to answer so my results weren't that great for that question.  For instance, two people said “because people are stupid” for that question. I was a little mad with some of the people that took it because they didn't take it seriously enough.  Nevertheless, after putting all of my results in a chart, I gathered a lot of really interesting information.  I’m excited to get more surveys and calculate the different percentages to put all the information together.

Strategy/Plan for Research

Participants:

I plan to ask students from school, teens whose parents are divorced, and even some adults.  I would like to ask people between the ages of 15-50.  I would I to make 2 different surveys: one for people whose parents are divorced and one for anyone.  Because I will be asking some classmates, the survey will be given to mostly females.  However, I would like to get some male perspectives as well.  In my family alone, my parents are divorced and my aunt has been divorced twice.  I'm kind of on the fence about asking my relatives to take the survey, but I may get some interesting information from my aunt, parents, and even my brothers (possibly).  I am also debating about whether or not I should ask complete strangers.  The results may be more interesting, but it'd be weird to be handing out surveys in public places.

Method and Data Collection:

I would like to have a hard copy of my survey because I would like to hand it out myself.  However, because I don't want to go all over creation to administer the survey, it may be easier for my to create a Google doc or email the document to people.  I feel like administering it only through a hard copy will limit who I give the survey to because I'm not going to travel to many places to give out the survey.

Predictions:

I predict that most of the teenagers I ask will have parents who are still married, but I definitely think that  close to half of them will have divorced parents.  I also predict that people will agree that the media is helping in the increase of divorces.  For the teens whose parents are divorced, I feel that most were at a young age when their parents divorced.  For who they live with, I feel like it will be pretty split.