After Bill's parents' divorce, he and his mother were forced to move into an apartment and he had to switch schools. The losses Bill experienced following the divorce marked a turning point in his life, because from then on, he did poorly in school. His parents' divorce would be considered a:
A) normative, age-graded influence
B) normative, history-graded influence
C) nonnormative influence
D) normative, gender-graded influence

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Nonnormative influences refer to the individual environmental factors that do not occur at any predictable time in a person's life (e.g., divorce, unemployment, career changes). Experiencing one's parents' divorce is not an event that can be predicted to occur at a predictable time in a person's life, if at all.

After Bill's Parents' Divorce, He and His Mother Were Forced