Divorce affects each member of the family which children experience it differently. Parents should sit down with their children and discuss the situation, but not going into detail, that would give mixed feelings towards the parent that is in fault. Even though parents are getting a divorce, they still are the most important people in a child’s life. Children tend to feel lonely, depressed, and rejected because of the situation. Children’s emotions, feelings, and how they cope with depends on how the parents display their coping skills (Lewis, 1999).
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Abstract Divorce is painful and confusing for children. How a parent handles it determines a lot about how the child will be affected, both today and tomorrow. After a parents’ divorce children are the primary concern. These concerns have derived from research evidence that divorce has many costs to them. Research reveals that balanced against the benefits that might derive from the end of a parents’ conflicted marriage, children often pay the price of a significantly reduced standard of living, emotional pain, and the loss of important parenting relationships in the immediate aftermath of divorce.
Then we will see how divorce affects children spiritually. The traditional lifestyle of living with both parents and being a family is almost rare in today’s society. Divorce is a very tragic situation especially when it involves children. Children undergo different changes in their lives as a result to divorce. Sometimes the effects of divorce can be short or long term consequences.
In today’s society, divorce has become a norm in our lives. Married couples today are getting a divorce due to many different reasons, either because of conflicts in the marriage, lost of romantic feelings, a spouse committing an affair, and other type of marriage problems. Most of these divorced couples have children that are very young and due to their age, have no idea on how to deal with an event like a divorce. These children will have to learn to deal with their parent’s divorce at such a young age, affecting them in a positive or negative way. The effects of recent enlargement in divorce rates are negative effects.
These studies are accredited by government agencies or university grants and are conducted by professionals in the field. Throughout this research, I aimed to answer the question on; how does divorce affect the psychological well-being of children and at what point. Throughout my research, I found that divorce effects those involved throughout their life in different situations that complicates their behavior or even their sanguinity or cynicism regarding marriage. While the research shown by Schindler helped broaden the view of when the changes in the family dynamics actually happened. Hallie, F. "The Influence of Divorce on the Relationship Between Adult Parent-Child and Adult Sibling Relationship."
In a divorce situation most persons had a changed lifestyle and it can affect mainly young children and person now entering the adolescent stage. Divorce tends to intensify the child's dependence and it tends to accelerate the adolescent's independence; it often stimulates a more relapsing response in the child and a more violent response in the adolescent. For some persons, divorce shakes trust in dependency on parents who now behave in an extremely undependable way. They surgically divide the family unit into two different households between which the child must learn to transit back and forth, for a while creating unfamiliarity, instability, and insecurity, never being able to be with one parent without having to be apart from the other. As the functionalist state, the family is like an organism, containing different parts, each of which must work together for the well-being and equilibrium of the organism.
IMPACT OF DIVORCE ON CHILDREN Impact of Divorce on Children Rebbecca Jackson Student #25417435 Prof. Kristi Starnes PSYC 210-B16 Abstract The decision to divorce carries a great burden upon the hearts of the adults involved. The focus on the separation of two adults can seemingly take center stage as the process is worked through. Often overlooked is the impact it has upon the smallest sufferers of the decision- the children. Many factors including age and resiliency can explain why not all children experience divorce in the same way. The effects of divorce can vary greatly depending on numerous factors including age and resiliency factors.
To what extent does divorce affect children, and what factors surrounding divorce influence child outcomes? Estelle Valencia Kwin Penda Psychology 212 Dr. Annie M. Cardell October 11, 2011 A brief definition for a divorce is, the legal dissolution of a marriage by a court or other competent body. It is the result of a bad collaboration between a Man and a Woman, therefore two parents. They are the ones that have duties and responsibilities on their children as a team. Having parental responsibility also means assuming all the rights, duties, powers, responsibilities and authority that a parent of a child has by law.
The effects of divorce on children differ greatly; age, gender and stage of development must be considered as to how divorce might affect children. However, we all can agree divorce will affect them some way or another. Their world, their security and the stability they have known seem to fall apart when parents divorce. No matter what their age, children appear to have some universal worries when divorce occurs. At each stage of development, children have different needs, their cognitive understandings differ and as of such, many researchers studying divorce would consider age of children as an important variable.