| | Divorce Effects on Children  No parent wishes for their children to experience the effects of a divorce. Unfortunately, divorce is all too familiar in today's society. In the past, most adults believed that divorce merely existed as a stumbling block on a child's path to adulthood. New research suggests that the negative effects of divorce on children can often be seen well into the child's future, many times even in the way a child of divorce deals with his/her own adult relationships. The reality is that most children do not recover quickly from divorce, and many children suffer from effects of divorce for years.
It is important to point out that many divorced parents do a wonderful job raising healthy, bright, and well-adjusted children. On average, however, research indicates that children of divorce (or those who were born into a single-parent family) do much more poorly in many areas.
Some effects of divorce on children are: - Being poor - most children of divorce experience at least one year in dire poverty
- Problems in school - lower grades, being held back, dropping out
- Poor health
- Higher risk of substance abuse, mental illness, criminal behavior and early sexual activity
- Feeling of loss over one parent's absence due to divorce
- Risk of children being abused - living with a stepparent or unmarried partner automatically makes child abuse more likely
- Children becoming divorced themselves someday
Many resources are available on the topic of divorce, and we are happy to provide you with additional information about divorce effects on children. Please contact us or visit the research section to read more about divorce and the effects of divorce on children.
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