Broken family: Its causes and effects on the development of children

Broken families can have a negative impact on all areas of child development. The influence of family breakdown on child's development depends on various factors such as age, personality and family relationship of the child when parents are separated. Infants and young children may have little developmental adverse effects, but older children and adolescents may experience social, emotional and educational problems. After divorce, children from preschool to late puberty will develop emotional development. Psychologist Lori Rappaport explains that children of all ages may feel tears or depression. This may last several years even after the child's parents are separated. Also, some older children have little emotional response to parents' divorce. According to Lori Rappaport, this may be harmful for development.

Broken families are families who have experienced a living, abandonment, or divorce, in which only one parent, not two children, is in desperate trouble. At the beginning of divorce, parents tend to constantly argue, but family members feel hopeless. Children around this atmosphere may get confused and blame themselves for these controversies and overall misfortune. In dealing with divorce, the impact on children depends on age, separation time, personality and family relationship (Anderson's "Family impact on development"). For example, infants and toddlers can adversely affect development and older children and adolescents tend to have long-term impacts on social, emotional, and educational everyday life (Anderson "broken" development Influence of family on ")")