Parental Conflict and Child Development

Because in the United States the divorce rate is high, this can be thought of as an effective way to resolve disputes between married couple. However, according to a study by Janie Sarrazin and Francine Cyr (2007), "Families from 24% to 33% of divorced families continue to experience serious conflicts for up to two years after divorce" (p. 78) . Despite the problem, many parents decided to be together for "for the children". Several studies focus on comparing the impact of divorce and parental conflict on child's happiness.

Contradiction takes various forms, and certain contradictions are particularly devastating to children. Hetherington (2003) discovered a collision, physical violence, intimidation or abuse with a child's parents or directly involved children, and a child's conflict between two parents in the middle of the child. Various studies indicate that separation and divorce may lead to confusion of parenting style. Simons et al. (1999) discovered that the quality of maternity coordinates the link between divorce and child coordination. Furthermore, the extent to which the father participates in child rearing explains a part of the relationship between divorce and male externalization. A non-custodial father is less likely to help a child solve problems or discuss behavioral standards and do discipline than a full family father.

The influence of family structure and family change on child's outcome: Personal reading of research literature

The conflict between parents and children is inevitable for families. Adolescence is the best time for power and autonomy fight between parents and children because failure of problem solving leads to increased conflicts and frequency of parents and children (Santrock, 2008). Parent-child confrontation is also one of the important predictors of coordination of adolescent youth behavior, social and emotional adjustment (Barber & Delfabbro, 2000). When a teenager has more conflict with parents, they experience stronger negative emotions (Chung, Flook, & Fuligni, 2009). However, after effectively managing parent-child conflicts, adolescents can successfully undertake the roles and responsibilities of adults (Hill, 1988, Laursen et al., Quoted in 1998).

When a child began to enter adolescence, the conflict between adolescence and parents seems to have increased. The number of conflicts varies from family to family and depends on many factors. This is largely due to the characteristics of adolescent youths and changes in growth, and how other families adapt to these changes. For adolescents and parents, adolescence is a time of challenge and change. Teenagers are at a stage in their life and they face many imminent decisions, including decisions on friends, careers, gender, smoking, alcohol consumption, drug use and parent values. At the same time, they face serious physical, social and emotional changes.