Divorce is all too common in today’s society. Marriages which use to be so sacred is now something if you don’t like how its turning out you can just divorce your spouse. But do these men and women take in to consideration how this will affect their kids. Most say yes that they tried to work it out for the kids but it didn’t work out. So how does the child or children really feel how does it affect them. In this essay I will look into the circumstances of divorce and what it does to children in the household how it affects their socialization, schooling, and just day to day life. Divorce can be defined as: the termination of a martial union, the cancelling and reorganizing of the legal duties and responsibility of marriage thus dissolving
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“Divorce often leads to worsened academic achievement in children ages 7-12. The most heightened negative effect being reading test scores. These negative effects tend to persist, and even escalate after the divorce or separation occurs” (Arkes 2014). So you can see from the text above that schooling is very affected and reading especially. This may be due that children will have the divorce on their mind and not be totally focusing on school. And all the events leading up to the divorce also very well have an effect on the child all the fighting and bickering back and forth are going to cause distraction in the child’s life. Which will also going to lead to them paying less attention in class acting out being disruptive? But some handle it differently than others a lot has to depend on the how the parents are treating it and what they do and don’t do in front of the kids. So really the parent’s actions are really going to dictate how their kids are affected in their schooling and if the teachers are aware or not. A teacher that is aware is a good thing for the child going through a divorce for the simple fact a teacher can give the child some more motivation or just observation so that they don’t fall behind in their …show more content…
You could see the child start to kind of sit back in the shadows if you will. They will tend to step back from all those fun group activities. They have all these thoughts of what going to happen with mom and dad, its puts them in a tight spot and puts unneeded stress on a child that is already going through a lot of change just in day to day life growing up. They will tend to get in deep thought and not want to be social. For teens its different they tend to turn to an outlet whether good or bad. They will look for stuff to get their minds off their problems at home. That may be books, sports, Partying and everything that comes along with that. Each kid is going to handle it differently you never know how it will work out. It’s hard to tell especially when their older they will try and keep things in and tend be more quite in general around their friends. They don’t wear their emotions on a sleeve like you do when you’re
“Divorce often leads to worsened academic achievement in children ages 7-12. The most heightened negative effect being reading test scores. These negative effects tend to persist, and even escalate after the divorce or separation occurs” (Arkes 2014). So you can see from the text above that schooling is very affected and reading especially. This may be due that children will have the divorce on their mind and not be totally focusing on school. And all the events leading up to the divorce also very well have an effect on the child all the fighting and bickering back and forth are going to cause distraction in the child’s life. Which will also going to lead to them paying less attention in class acting out being disruptive? But some handle it differently than others a lot has to depend on the how the parents are treating it and what they do and don’t do in front of the kids. So really the parent’s actions are really going to dictate how their kids are affected in their schooling and if the teachers are aware or not. A teacher that is aware is a good thing for the child going through a divorce for the simple fact a teacher can give the child some more motivation or just observation so that they don’t fall behind in their …show more content…
You could see the child start to kind of sit back in the shadows if you will. They will tend to step back from all those fun group activities. They have all these thoughts of what going to happen with mom and dad, its puts them in a tight spot and puts unneeded stress on a child that is already going through a lot of change just in day to day life growing up. They will tend to get in deep thought and not want to be social. For teens its different they tend to turn to an outlet whether good or bad. They will look for stuff to get their minds off their problems at home. That may be books, sports, Partying and everything that comes along with that. Each kid is going to handle it differently you never know how it will work out. It’s hard to tell especially when their older they will try and keep things in and tend be more quite in general around their friends. They don’t wear their emotions on a sleeve like you do when you’re