Impact Of The Parent's Divorce

Children of divorce are numerous, the effects of their biological parents separation and subsequent divorce has lasting effects on their behavior, academics, and their emotions. No one seems to care about the prevalence of divorce in society today; it is no longer considered taboo.

A divorce of parents can lead children to have loss of knowledge, skills, and resources from parents. Those children with divorce of parentss are at risk of getting bad grades even dropping out school due to the fact that they have been alternating between their parents houses. When the children saw their father fighting against each other, they feel depressed and worthless. Gradually, the feeling of depression and worthlessness take them to the point where he or she just doesn’t care about school anymore. The high marks that he or she used to get in the past to impress his parent 's are not the same as the grades after divorce. The child reaches the level where getting a standard grade is not important anymore

The occurrence on divorce in our society today has left children emotionally and mentally hurt by this. More and more studies have been done on to see if divorce has an effect on children. I personally have had no effect of divorce, but I have had several friends who have been affected. I had little knowledge about how impactful divorce can have an affect on someone until I started doing research on this topic. Divorce is very hard on people who have to deal with this. The articles I have found to do research on all have something new and exciting to bring to the table. Of the ones I have found, I believe they will help me to understand more of the struggles young children have to cope with during such a difficult time. I also found an interesting article about the fathers’ perspectives on divorce. It talked about how they still want to be apart of their children’s lives and how hard it is to keep a strong relationship with their children. I felt like it would be good to include this article into my paper because it will help me to learn from the fathers’ side how they handle the situation. Throughout this paper, I disused the different effects divorce has on children, the various programs and coping strategies for the children, and fathers’ perspectives and mother-child relationships. All of these topics are very important to divorce and the articles from the researchers did a great job of talking about these topics.

Divorce in and of itself does not harm children; it is the intensity and duration of the conflict between parents that negatively impacts a children adjustment. After a divorce or separation, it isn’t uncommon for children to display some behavioral issues. A child acting out shouldn’t come as a complete surprise because after all, a divorce is a challenging obstacle for the entire family to go through. Behavioral issues in children of divorce can range from mild acting out to destructive behavior. Feelings of anger, confusion, frustration and sadness are all part of the roller coaster of emotions that a child may experience as a result of the events happening in their life. A child’s grades might begin to fall after a divorce. While this change is more common in older children and in boys than girls, it is a statistical probability. However, each child may handle their parent’s divorce a certain way than other children depending on many factors, especially age.

In this paper, I will focus on the different ways in which divorce can affect children both socially and mentally. I will discuss how divorce is a process as well as an alternative developmental path that can lead to different outcomes for different children. The questions I will attempt to answer using methods such as focus groups and surveys are: How does divorce affect children overall? What are the factors that contribute to the well-being of children after divorce?

While divorce may reduce strain on a failing marriage, it may cause damaging effects on the children. Often times parents are too concerned on the marriage to notice the effects on children. From the way parents react in front of the children to new marriages all can directly affect the daily lives, and behavior of children. Though, there are ways to mitigate some of the issues that can come with divorce, possibly avoiding some of the effects all together.

Divorce- the legal annulment of a marriage by a court or other similar body. Divorce is next in line to a loss of a family member; it is unbearable and can feel impossible to cope with. Individuals who have children and go through a divorce can negatively impact a child’s life, and ultimately lead to future divorce for the children when they are older, if not handled well. There are two types of people: Parents who have given their all and happen to realize parting ways is much healthier for all those involved, and those who stay together just for the children sake and well-being. While you think you are coping well with divorce (or not) one should keep the child in mind, and always make sure the child is emotionally fine and happy.

Divorce can have a lasting impact on children. For starters the holiday season can get tough. Some children switch place to place for certain holidays while others may have the conflict of celebrations on the same day. Having those conflicts can cause distress. Holidays are also a time where children remember the happier time when the family was one. Divorce can also cause emotional issues. Trust is one of those emotional issues that children are faced with. Their trust issue can result in not able to have a close relationship with another. Trust issues can also lead into social issues with children of divorce. The impact of divorce can cause children to go place to place not being able to have time of their own. However some children of

[It is generally know that the divorce rate in the United States hovers around fifty percent, including forty percent under the age of 21. In that fifty percent one of every six adults is likely to go through a divorce twice. Not only does divorce affect the adults involved, but forty percent of children in the United States will experience parental divorce (Portnoy, 2008). Children with divorced parents struggle with negative consequences emotionally, mentally, and academically compared to those children from intact families.]

Did you know the U.S Census Bureau found that forty-one percent of marriages end in divorce? Did you also know the divorce rate among couples with children is forty percent lower than couples without children. Sadly according to http://1.usa.gov/1dMPvI2, forty-three percent of children growing up in America today are being raised without their fathers. Seventy-five percent of children with divorced parents live with their mother. Twenty-eight percent of children living with a divorced parent live in a household with an income below the poverty line. Finally, half of all American children will witness the breakup of a parent’s marriage. Of these children, close to half will also see the break up of a parent 's second marriage.

Over the past few decades, the divorce rate has exponentially increased throughout America. Many Americans have developed a new definition of family due to the rapidly changing culture of our times. These culture and value changes have drastically brought a change to the traditional ideas of the past resulting in many different changes within the nuclear family of the past. Divorce has become rampant amongst the American population, which is causing many Sociological problems to those that have to go through the depressing and saddening stages of stress, especially to the children of whose parents are divorced. “At present, 60-75% of divorces involve children under the age of 18”(Lansford, 2009). Many children have to experience the distress of divorce and it affects them in many ways such as mentally, physically, economically, which brings them great difficulty in their lives.

For this weeks research topic that has been said that it has a huge impact in children 's development. The researches of Divorce and the impact on a child 's development. Some of the e journals will explore and help us identify some the effects that harm children as they encounter their parental divorce. Numerous researchers have found that parental divorce is associated with a range of negative outcomes in young children. We will focus on prospective Analysis and explore the study more detailed. The effects of a person’s early relationship on their development through life.

Divorce is a common situation that occurs in families worldwide and can have effects on children. The children’s adjustment to depends on the behavior of their parents. This topic is important to the human resources field because it can explain many different human behaviors. The reason that I am interested in this topic is because my parent’s got divorced. Some of the effects that divorce has on children are substance use, low self-esteem, and psychological/ behavioral problems.

Divorce is a topic of much debate in the United States. “Till death do us apart”, is the famous vow that married couples promise one another as a sign of everlasting love. However, over the last few years we have seen an increase in divorce rates. If you look back to a few decades ago, divorce wasn’t as accepted by society. Nevertheless divorce has become more acceptable in today 's modern society in recent years. Many can argue that the negative consequences outweigh the benefits of divorce for those involved, especially the children that become victims. Majority can agree that due to the serious matter, divorce should not be taken lightly. Living in the United States allows people the freedom to make choices that are not always accepted well by society in other countries. Divorce can be a long and painful process for everyone involved, that is left with emotional and social consequences that take place throughout adulthood.

Divorce is a plague that is destroying numerous families across the United States of America. Sadly, when husbands and wives divorce, the children are often caught directly in the middle. Throughout the years divorce has been becoming more and more common. In the 1920's it was a rare find to know a person whom had been divorced, today it is a rarity not to know of one who has been, or will be divorced. Divorce has numerous effects on the structures of families, and many devastating effects on the children that must experience it, although sometimes necessary, divorce radically changes the lives of adolescents and adults alike.