Cause and Effects of Divorce on Children.

Divorce in today's society is very common. Divorce also has terrible and lasting effects on children.

In today's society, marriages are less likely to last as they did 20 years ago. There are over 1 million

children that suffer each year because of the divorce of their parents. There are usually children involved

in almost all divorce cases. "Moreover, half of all children born to married parents this year will experience

the divorce of their parents before they reach their 18th birthday. This fact alone should give policymakers

and those whose careers focus on children reason to pause." (2) When things are not working in a

marriage, it is usually because of a breakdown of communication, common goals, or trust, and often this

starts the process of a divorce. A divorce is a very painful process with detrimental effects on children that

are involved. Depending on the childs age when the divorce takes place, depends on how much trauma

that child will endure.

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""Social science research reveals that the effects of divorce not only impact a child

into adulthood, but they also affect the next generation of children as well."(Linaman)."

There are three common effects on children, they are depression, behavior problems and economic hardship. The psychological effects are normally considered long term and the hardest to deal with for children involved. The easiest of all effects of a divorce is a child is behavior outburst normally displaying aggression and a feeling of not caring about anything or anyone anymore. When parents are going through a divorce, they feel the need to protect their children from pain and anguish. Unfortunately, this is impossible. Divorce causes children to go through a number of mixed emotions. Some of the different emotions are fear of abandonment, feeling of hopelessness and fear of fault...