Children from Divorced Families

The divorce rate in the United States is about 50%. More than half of these divorces involve children under the age of 18. As a result, about 40% of children in the world are affected by divorce. About one-third of children live in families, including a step from their parents. (Sandford M. Portnoy) It is controversial, but children affected by divorce develop mental state. Scholars, behavior and even health are the factors of divorce. There is also discussion on how long these conditions will last for the children.

• In previous studies on the children of families who divorced, generally divorced the children and the whole family child's behavior problems, or by comparing the statistically managed other family variables, the parent of separation for the child's behavior problems I examined the direct impact. This research provides a wealth of useful information, but often ignores the impact of variables of other households on children during the divorce process. Therefore, in the future of research, not only the impact of divorce itself is on the children, other variables related to divorce, for example, the quality of the parent-child relationship, conflicts between spouses before and after the divorce, such as the children's living conditions after divorce You also need to pay attention. wait. Special attention should be paid to changes in fundamental mechanisms that affect children's adaptive capacity.

Many of the studies, often family conflict is a strong aura divorce, shows that the children of the family who divorce causes to rank their relationship as a larger family of confrontation. Those from a complete family show more cohesiveness, expressiveness, social ability, idealization and conflict than those of divorced families. However, divorced families, young people's self-esteem, the fear of satisfaction of intimacy and relationships, but does not affect, will have an impact on the fear and expectations for divorce (Kirk, 2002).

12) In addition, the psychological effects of divorce is unbearable: the children of divorced families have problems on the emotional and behavioral than in adults, 13) negative emotions, 14) mental health is complete I am from gender family