Divorce Negative Effects

Divorce can negatively affect teens if parents do not maturely handle the situation.

Divorce can cause academic problems and even cause emotional stress in teens.

Some parents don’t realize this situation can even be deadly. In some cases, teens will feel alone and depressed after they experience their parents’ getting into a divorce. To relieve stress, they might hang with the wrong group of people and attempt to use drugs.

Divorce is also associated with mental problems. Heavy drinking is related to higher risk of the divorce. A freshman with divorced parents had lower scores of moral judgment development than freshman with married parents. According to International Atlantic Economic Society “There is a continuous increase in the dissolution of marriages among African American females over time.”

Parental absence after divorce may lead to loss of security in personal relationships with their children. As a result, children need quality time. One major issue is the lack of motivation from their parents as their children become older. Another major issue is suicide. Some teenagers think that they are the cause for the divorce and try to commit suicide. They may experience domestic violence. Usually there are very negative outcomes among children. Some children improve, some decline, others are not affected. They experience divorce more than teens on a daily basis. Divorce had a limited impact on child adjustment over and above familial risk for depression. According to a divorce rate survey “Divorce had a significant effect on child outcomes only among high-risk grandchildren with a depressed grandparent.” Verbally expressed attitudes about family obligations might also be affected by actual exchanges in support. Studies sh...

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...her to move on. Sometimes the

parents might blame the child but that should never be the case because the parents

should communicate more about their own relationship.

In some cases, after the divorce the parents might get back together to start over or

move on and focus on their own lives. It is not an event that you can just forget about. You

have to have someone to help you get over the problem. If you don’t, you will only have

more stress on yourself.

Not every parent react the same when going through a divorce and not all children

react the same way either. It is helpful for both parents to discuss the divorce at an

appropriate age to their child. They should not argue with one another in front of the child.

Also the shouldn’t interrogate their child about visits with the other parent. Doing so could

allow the child to become depressed.