Teenager's Relationship With Divorced Parents

As time goes on, more and more people start to care the importance of the adolescence affect the teenagers’ life. Parents as the agent of socialization, it has a huge relationship with adolescence that because teenagers spend more time with their parents than others since they were born. Therefore, a child’s social status and treatment from their parents can affect several aspects which is education, mental health and personality traits. As people know, these elements have a great impact for the teenagers that can lead them to have a better life or not. According to the research, the social status of the parents, the parental divorce, rejection, violence, personality affects and encouragement are directly influencing their children. First …show more content…
Since the children know they are going to live in a single family or the new family number whom is stepfather or stepmother, they will get the problems about mental health and education. From the Journal article Consequences of Parental Divorce for Child Development, Kim shows, “compared to children with continuously married biological parents, children with divorced parents are disadvantaged regarding various life outcomes, including likelihood of dropping out of high school, cognitive skills, psychosocial well-being, and social relations (Amato 2001; Amato and Keith 1991)” (Kim, 2011, p487). These evidence can prove that the education of children will be influenced when the parents are divorcing or they already divorced because the children are able to change the school or drop out of the school. At the same time, the emotions will be different with other children as Kim says, “ Specifically, compared with their counterparts in intact families, children of divorce were more likely to struggle with ‘anxiety, loneliness, low self-esteem, and sadness’ while their parents were in the divorce stage”(Kim, 2011, p501). Therefore, the parental divorce can make a big challenge for the childhood or adolescence, the teenagers will feel they are unequal with others when they are parents divorced. The negative emotions can lead them to the mental disorder or they will not make the right marital decision in the future and the risk of dropping out of the school or changing school can influence their future since they need to get in a new environment with some negative