Family Conflict Affects Child Social Development

Families play an important role in children's thinking, behavior, and overall positive development. Everyone, both at home and outside, wants a stable environment. Due to stress, conflict, or other problems that can not be avoided, life stability does not last. Collisions will occur regardless of whether we are aware of conflicts. Regardless of our family, friends, strangers, colleagues, or someone we might encounter, it can happen from the smallest problem to the biggest problem in our daily life.

Broken families can adversely affect all areas of child development. The influence of family breakdown on child's development depends on various factors such as the child's age, personality, family relationship when parents are separated. Infants and young children may feel little developmental adverse effects, but older children and adolescents may experience social, emotional and educational problems. After divorce, children from pre-school to late puberty will have emotional development. Psychologist Lori Rappaport explains that children of all ages may feel weeping and frustration. This may last several years after parents' parents have parted. Also, senior children may have little emotional reaction to their parents' divorce. According to Lori Rappaport, this may be harmful to development.

Throughout history, the role of family members and the impact on children's development have been the subject of discussion for centuries. "Families are the first ongoing interaction for children" (Elkin & Handel, 1978). Family composition and parent-child communication have a bigger influence on child's development than before. Children are raised in a variety of home environments, from parents to parents, child rearing parents and multinational children raising children all over the USA. All of these elements are born through marriage, divorce and other relationships, so they contribute to various families, cultures and religions in which children are being introduced.