Effects Of Divorce On Children

The Effects of Divorce on Children
Throughout time, people from all over the world have chosen to live together, or “get married”. Marriage is a beautiful thing, but there are some couples who are unable to maintain their relationships, because they choose divorce as a solution to cope with the problems between husband and wife. For a child, it is very difficult to live only with one of his or her parents. Children often cannot adjust well during the divorce of parents because the change can be devastating for them. Although divorce can be a solution to cope with problems between husbands and wives, it may often still have dangerous effects, especially on children. As a student in Sociology 2520: Analysis
Dealing with conflicts between parents during divorce causes children to lose their sense of security. Children feel secure when they are with both of their parents. If this feeling of security is diminished, children will have a slight possibility of developing psychological disorders. Children with divorced parents tend to be alone or have fewer friends because of the separation of their parents. Divorce and separation are emotional processes in which the child is affected just as much as are the parents. After a divorce, the child whose parents are disconnected feels incomplete, empty, anxious, depressed and has low self-esteem. After the child realizes that their parents will never be together again, he or she will always feel incomplete to an extent. Children want to be with their parents at family dinners, dance concerts, football games, and other social activities and gatherings. This is far more unlikely to happen in families with divorced parents. Anxiety, depression and other negative feelings, which appear in children during the time of divorce, will affect children and, may, in extreme cases, even drive them to the point where they start to think of
This is why they keep asking their parents to come back together. Their parents will often keep rejecting their request of coming back together, which also causes negative feelings to appear again during divorce. This is not only because their parents reject the child’s request, but also because children compare themselves with other children whose parents are not separated. Furthermore, some children tend to blame themselves for the divorce of their parents because it is emotionally easier for children to blame themselves than to put the blame on someone else. If the child blames himself or herself, he or she would think that they are the reason for the damage that happened in the relationship between their parents. This will affect their emotions more than anything else, and will have long-term consequences. Divorce of parents does have destructive effects on children’s