The Negative Effects Of Divorce

Most people don’t ever think that they will get a divorce but the reality is that almost half of marriages will end in divorce. Divorce is not a decision that is made or taken lightly; its effects on families are damaging and not to mention long lasting. The Oxford Dictionary (2017), describes divorce as “a legal decree dissolving a marriage by a court or other competent body”. When a couple decides to separate numerous aspects of their lives are affected. Divorce affects family dynamics, physically and emotionally health, education, finances, job stability, income potential, drug use and crime. Divorce does not simply affect the lives of families; it affects America as a whole religiously, economically, and it immensely impacts the lives of the children involved.

Couples make the decision to have a divorce after realizing that their marriage is no longer healthy, and in order to restore their happiness they decide to end the marriage. Although the individuals mutually agree that this is the best decision long term it can also lead to an accumulation of negative effects. These negative effects will impact every individual that is associated with the divorce, which can include the parents, children, family members, and friends. The occurrence of a divorce can impact the psychosocial, cognitive, and physical domain of each individual associated, cause various long term effects, and lead to remarriage.

Amato, Paul R. "The Consequences of Divorce for Adults and Children." Journal of Marriage and the Family 62.4 (2000): 1269-87.

     Adolescents also develop mixed emotions and have mood swings, which makes the relationship with their family members difficult to maintain. Males have a difficult time dealing with fact that they are lacking a father figure. They sometimes feel as if they were betrayed and no longer loved by him. This rejection from their father adds to the difficult time for adolescents. The are continuously wishing for a reunion of their parents. In some cases, harsh feelings and negativity are displayed towards the mother because of the father missing. Females, on the other hand, lean toward their friends as support figures. They try not to allow the divorce to bring them down. "They were happier and also more likely to view the divorce as an improvement to their family situation prior to the separation," (Dufour, p.10).

The topic of divorce, for many decades, has been a topic that fell into the domain of taboo. In more recent years, society within the united states has brought the topic into the limelight by desensitizing the term. Thus, the divorce rates in the US have went up. However, a divorce has both positive and negative implications. Also, there have been backlashes against divorce, but there has also been a positive feedback system employed to aid in the process that surround divorce. The partitioning between the political parties can be further exemplified in topic of divorce.

As I read this, my theory is “Psychodynamic”. She’s basically is starving herself for attention. The skinner she got, the more attention it has gotten her. She likes the more “boyish”, more athletic figure. To me, this steems from her perents quarrelling and talks of divorce a few years ago. Maybe prior to this, Andrea was the center of her parent’s world. Now that Andrea has gotten older, her parent’s attention swifted towards themselves, and not so much towards her. Maybe she tried numbous attemps to gain her parent’s attention, and nothing worked. Now a 19 year college student, where body image is everything. Now with some weight lost, it gained her some attention, and with even more weight, it gained her even more attention. She

By definition, divorce is to break the marriage contract between oneself and one’s spouse by a judicial declaration dissolving a marriage in whole or in part. This is a result of tension which is a mental or emotional strain of a relationship between individuals. When going through the process of divorce, most of children’s opinions are left out of the process. This causes a great deal of tension for the children. Many children become very stressed during this process because they do not want their parents to separate (“The Truth About Children and Divorce”). The tension of divorce negatively affects children’s everyday life because the parents are not taking the child’s opinions into consideration leaving the children feeling left out and rejected.

Do not cry, move on, it will get better ” (Sadness, www.children-and-divorce.com/sadness.html). In 1857, the Matrimonial Act introduces divorce through the courts. At first, Men were particularly the only one who could file for divorce on account of the wives committing adultery which had to be substantiate. The High Court in London was an exclusive place you can get a divorce in this time of life. The Matrimonial cause Act in 1923 put women and men on the same equal footing for the first time. During marriages according to Weitzman, “60% children will experience disruption in their parents' marriage and face financial hardship before reaching 18 because 90% of all custodial parents are women, yet 60-80% of all fathers defy court orders to pay child support”( LJ, Weitzman. “The Divorce Revolution: the Unexpected Social and Economic Consequences for Women and Children in America.” Popline, New York New York The Free Press 1985., 1 Jan. 1985, www.popline.org/node/416851.) Many people of the world find love and start a family. What they do not realise is that they start a family immediately and do not know how to handle

Unfortunately, divorce is a common occurrence in today’s society. A divorce can occur for many reasons such as infidelity, unhappiness, money, poor communication, stress of having children, etc… The divorce process can be a long drawn out process and can be physically and emotionally draining on the couple. Not only does this process effect the two parents, but it also effects the child(ren). The effects of the divorce initially affects them during childhood, and in many cases, the effects cause problems in their adult life as well. The study I read talked about the long term effects divorce and even parental death have on children into their adult lives. ADD HOW PARENTAL DEATH OCCURS

Divorce is a very common word in today's society. According to the American Heritage Dictionary, "divorce is the legal dissolution of a marriage or a complete or radical severance of closely connected things"(Pickett, 2000). This dissolution of marriage has increased very rapidly in the past fifty years. In 1950 the ratio of divorce to marriage was one in every four; in 1977 that statistic became one in two. Currently one in every two first marriages results in divorce. In second marriages that figure is considerably higher, with a 67% average (National Vital Statistics Report, 2001). One critical aspect of divorce is often not taken into consideration: How it affects children. Every year 1.1 million children are affected by divorce

Over studied in the 40 years, parental divorce has caused a wide range of behavioral and emotional problems in children and adolescents. Although the media tends to emphasize the negative aspects of divorce and impact that divorce has on children, not all married families are happy ones and they do not always offer a better environment; the majority of children from divorced families are emotionally well adjusted. In the article, reasons of divorce could be difference in cultural values and social integration, race and ethnicity, extramarital affairs…These weren’t the stressors on the kids, it is the diminishing of parenting from the separated parents that made them suffer. The loss of important relationship means the erosion of closeness and meaning of relationship with

My parents were divorced before I could remember, but not everybody had that privilege of being familiar to separate parents. Me including several others do not know why our parents separated, they just did. Most of the time children have no say in what goes on in there house, they suffer the most consequences out of everybody involved. Children have more long term effects from a divorce than if one of their parents died during their youth. That says a lot about how your child is viewing life if someone dying is more harmful to a child than if their parents just separated

Imagine a teenage boy, completely happy with a good life and a family that he is close to. He has his own place in the family and a set daily routine that has been in place for over a decade. Now imagine something ripping that family apart. His daily life became anything but routine. Everything changed: his living arrangements, his family’s financial situation, and his security. In America, we call that divorce. According to the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, “One out of every two marriages today ends in divorce and many divorcing families include children.” “Only 42 percent of children aged 14 to 18 live in a “first marriage” family and intact two-parent married

Divorce has been on a rise in America since the past thirty years. Almost every person might be having a divorced member in its family. Divorce has been reported to be the major cause of suicide as well. Many factors lead to divorce, some of which are online dating, financial problems and physical abuse.

Today in modern society, divorce is becoming more normal than ever. Statistically speaking, over forty-five percent of all marriages end in divorce. Divorce defined by Webster as the action or an instance of legally dissolving a marriage [1]. The word divorce can be used to describe both a cause and an effect. A few causes of divorce could include lack of communication, financial distress, and sexual indiscretion. These are just a few of the most common causes of divorce. The effects a divorce seems almost incomparable when considering the hardship it causes on both people in the relationship.