Being Raid In A Nontraditional Family

Being raised in a nontraditional family such as a single parent or split family, causes weakened life outcome for children because it leads to mental disorders. In the Family dissolution and offspring depression and depressive symptoms: a systematic review of modern effects it mentions that, “Children from dissolved families are consistently found to be at greater risk of affective disorders, including depression, compared with those from intact families”. It also states in Helping Children and Families Deal with Divorce and Separation that a parent’s divorce effects children of all ages. This article states that “Although infants cannot understand the separation, they react to changes in routine and caregivers and the break in attachment.

By putting a delay on their language skills and toileting it puts them behind and makes them more dependent on their parents for a longer amount of time. Also, if they are not getting enough sleep or eating enough they will not be able to grow and be as developed physically compared to other children their age. According to the same article children who experience divorce that are in the preschool-aged children, “do not understand the permanence of the separation and will repeatedly ask for the absent parent… By age 4 to 5 years, they may blame themselves for the separation, begin acting out, have nightmares, have more reluctance to separate, and fear that they may be abandoned”. As you can see, these children can grasp knowledge that their parents are not together/ one is not present, however, they do not comprehend why. This can lead to more emotional stress because of the fear that they may have been abandoned or if they might blame themselves for the separation of their parents. This article mentions that school-aged children experience some of the same feelings and emotions as preschool-aged children such as, “Self-blame and asking and fantasizing about the reunion of the parents are not

Hope that their parents might get back together someday and if nothing progresses to this hope they will end up more devastated than before. Finally in this article it states some effects of divorce on children in their adolescents. It states, “- Although by this age, children may understand some of the reasons for the family breakup, they may still have difficulty accepting the situation and may try to take on adult roles… They may de-idealize 1 or both parents and still believe that they can reunite the parents. Aggressive delinquent behavior, withdrawal, substance abuse, inappropriate sexual behavior, and poor school performance are frequent responses to the change in family structure. Suicidal ideation is increased in junior high school–aged boys of separated mothers and is more frequent in men than in women of divorced parents. Girls living with divorced fathers are more likely to make suicide attempts than girls living with their divorced mothers” This, in my opinion, is the most dangerous time because their lives are at