The Effects of Divorce on Children

Not many people know this but every year, an average of over one million children in America are unfortunately suffering from the aftermath of their parents’ divorce and most children born each year will witness a divorce by the age of 18 years old. This subject is a little touchy for me but also very important to go over because it hits home for me. My brother and I are children that witnessed our parents get a divorce. That was probably one of the hardest things we’d ever had to go through and I find this being the perfect opportunity to study and research more on how and why divorce can be so hard on the children it effects. Not only is this sociologically significant to science and people all over but it is also personally significant to me as well.

According to Fox News, young kids whose parents divorce struggle with math, social skills and emotions such as anxiety and depression for at least two years after the split, a new study finds. It is found that kids started struggling in different areas of their life as soon as their parents began the process of divorce. Children of divorce tend to fall behind other kids on important skills such as math and social skills. No soon after, they began show behavior problems which is said to be a way the children show emotions of by way of sadness, depression and anxiety.

Also, new research suggests that children whose parents divorce when they are very young have a more difficult time establishing close relationships with their parents later in life according to Huffington Post. Whether we realize it or not, the relationships we build with our parents play important roles in our lives. When you think about it, our parents are the first real relationship we all experience. What we as hu...

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...uation of divorce. Show them that you care about what they have to say and what they are feeling by asking and listening. Allow the children to express their honest feelings about the situation and comfort them.

In this analysis, the discussion of divorce is clear that it affects so many children in America daily. Along with a divorce come many headaches such as the with the process of getting one, agreeing on custodial and visitation arrangements, and settling financial arrangements. However the families may be structured, children still need an environment that is caring, loving and most importantly stable for the growth and development of the child. Ultimately, it is not the children who should be held responsible for the situations their parents have placed them in. It is the parents who are responsible for molding their children into what they should become.