The Hidden Effects of Divorce on Children

Nowadays it’s hard from an individual who does not know someone who is divorced, or who are not even divorced. In Hollywood, divorce is seemingly a common occurrence, while the way for a society where we are not only getting married later in life, but also on the lookout for an almost unrealistic level of happiness in our marriage.
Many couples considering divorce refuse to believe that divorce can have a negative effect on their children. But many studies have been carried out to prove otherwise.
A longitudinal study published in 2002 by the Institute for American Values, that “unhappily married adults who divorced no more emotional or psychological improvements than those who remained married report.
According to this study, divorce does not in fact improve your emotional health. I think it would be safe to assume that this is not inflicted on the stress and financial burden divorce couples.
Here is another fact you may not know , …
The Institute for American Values study found that nearly eight out of 10 couples who avoided divorce were happily married five years later. What is surprising is not it?
Here is a Another fact …
Half of all American children will witness the separation of their parents marriage. Of these almost half of which is the separation from a parent’s second marriage. “(Furstenberg, Peterson, Nord, and Zill,” Life Course “)
Many couples divorce, and then without knowing the true cause of their marriage marriage problems in the first marriage again. ! Therefore, the second marriage divorce rate is still higher than that of the first marriage is
Here are some statistics specifically on the impact of divorce on children …
- studies showed in the early 1980s, children in divorces repeat lower level and rated their colleagues as they earned less pleasant to be around. (Andrew J. Cherlin, Marriage, Divorce, Remarriage-Harvard University Press 1981)
- Forty percent of children raised in America today are raised without their fathers. (Wade, Horn and Busy, “Fathers, Marriage and Welfare Reform” Hudson Institute Executive Briefing, 1997)
- Young people in single-parent families and blended families are three times more likely to need psychological help within a given year. (Peter Hill “Recent Advances in selected aspects of adolescent development,” Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry 1993)
- Destroyed in comparison to children from families by death, children from divorced homes have more psychological problems. (Robert E. Emery, Marriage, Divorce and Child Adjustment “Sage Publications, 1988)
This statistic is truly amazing is not it? But let me continue on … here are some more shocking statistics on the effect of divorce on children …
- children living with both biological parents 20 to 35 percent are more physically healthy than children from broken families (Dawson, Journal of Marriage and Family “Family Structure and Children’s Health and Well-Being.” )
- do most victims of child abuse in single-parent households or are the children of drug-ring (Los Angeles Times 16 September 1985 The Garbage Generation) -. One child at a women’s out house is 10 times more likely to be beaten or killed (the legal beagle, July 1984, from “The Garbage Generation”)
- The study of children six years increased after parental separation marriage, that even after all these time, these children “lonely, unhappy, anxious and uncertain” to be maintained (Wallerstein “The Long-Term Effects of Divorce on Children” Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry 1991)
-. are children of divorce four times more frequent problems with peers and friends than children whose parents kept their marriages intact Report (Tysse, Burnett, “Moral dilemmas. Early adolescents of divorced and intact families, Journal of Early Adolescence 1993)
-. Children of divorce, particularly boys, are more aggressive towards other than the children whose parents are not divorced. (Emery, “Marriage, divorce and child adjustment, 1988)
- were are the children of divorce is a greater risk of injuries, asthma, headaches and speech defects than children whose parents are married experience (Dawson.” family structure and children’s health and Well Being “National Health Interview Survey on Child Health, Journal of Marriage and the Family)
- people who come from broken families are nearly twice as likely to attempt suicide than that do not come from broken families (Velez-Cohen “Suicidality and ideation in a community sample of children,” Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry 1988)
-. The children of divorced parents are roughly twice falling more frequently from high school than their peers, by her parents live, not benefiting the divorce (McLanahan Sandefur, “Growing Up with a single parent: What Hurts, What helps,” Harvard University Press 1994)
- Seventy percent of long-term prison inmates grew up in dysfunctional families (Horn, Bush. “Fathers, Marriage and Welfare Reform)
-. After divorce, children are fifty percent more likely to health problems than two parent families to develop. (Angel, Worobey, “Single motherhood and children’s health”)
- for all children born to married parents this year, fifty percent of the divorce experience of their parents before their 18th Birthday reach. (Fagan, Fitzgerald, Rector, “The impact of divorce on America)
I hope these statistics can lead you (or your spouse) seriously consider all the consequences of divorce before you make that final decision.
based on these statistics, it is obvious that children need stable, loving home with both mom and dad. It is of course an exception to the rule, and in this case it is households where abuse instead of increasing. The Children should under no circumstances in an abusive atmosphere that is unsafe to stay for them.
But if it takes place no abuse in your marriage and the two of you have simply “grown apart”, or fell out of love, I urge you to help look for your wedding, before giving themselves completely. For your children’s sake, even if you’re desperate right now help for your marriage today.
