How Divorce Affects Children

How divorce affects children is mainly in accordance with each child’s individual uniqueness.

However, kids of divorced couples do exhibit a number of shared bonds, or attitudes.

For example, shared behavior patterns, and general reactions to coping with every day life without both parents in the home, are usually linked to a child’s chronological age group at the time their folks split up.

According to a specialist in human development and family studies, from the University of Missouri, children’s reactions to their parents divorce differs depending upon each child’s stage of chronological, emotional and mental development. Side Note: Looking at how divorce affects children during the time of the divorce, is only the first snapshot in a photo album that is updated with snapshots taken in the years following the divorce…

Listed below are some examples of shared behavior and attitudes observed from how divorce affects children:

Infants: higher degree of irritability, more crying and fussing, changes in sleeping and eating habits.

Toddlers: they recognize the fact that one parent is no longer living at home, they have a difficult time physically separating from a parent, may express anger, may lose some skills previously acquired like toilet training, going back to thumb-sucking, experience changes in sleeping patterns, may have nightmares.

Preschoolers and early elementary age: may blame themselves for the divorce, may over-worry about changes in their lives, may exhibit sadness and grieving because of the absence of one parent, may be aggressive and violent to the parent they blame for the divorce, may fantasize about their parents getting back together.

Preteens: may feel abandoned by the departing parent, may withdraw from friends and favorite activities, may exhibit strange behavior and use foul language, may feel angry and uncertain about their concepts of love, marriage and family, may feel that they are growing up too soon, and may find themselves preoccupied about their parents’ finances.

Here’s a short video from real life experts who have to deal with the realities of how divorce effects children:

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All the best,
Marriage Without Divorce Staff

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