Divorce Affecting Children

Divorces Affecting Children’s Behavior
In society today, millions of couples around the world deal with divorce. Most of those divorces are from married couples with children, which results in the children themselves suffering from psychological and behavioral problems such as anxiety, depression, guilt, and possible suicide. According to the children’s mind, they would think they are the cause of their parents’ separation. Therefore, the children would feel guiltier than the parents themselves. For example, I remember when I was a kid, my mother and father had their differences, but I remember the day when they both had enough. It was when I was about six years old on a cloudy day. My mother came up to me and patted my head. I was worried …show more content…
Children seem to feel more stressed after the separation, causing stress to impact their mentality and consciousness. For example, when I was a child I acknowledged some hints of a separation between my parents, but I couldn’t find an alternative to avoid it from happening. I blamed myself for a good eight months. It was not until I was in the fourth grade when I finally figured out what a divorce was. On that same day, I came home. Quietness, not a sound in the air, I walked into my empty house. Proceeding to take off my shoes, I walked straight to my elegant, dark, blue painted room. Approaching my bed, I dropped like an unsuccessful business profit chart. Drowning in so many emotions, it felt like I was a lost child in a dark, eerie forest. At that moment, I was at the peak of changes of my own behavior and mentality. In the article “Children’s Impact on the Parental Decision to Divorce”, the authors, Korrel Kanoy, and Brent C. Miller, who are both proficient in the field of family relations, explain the theories and research on how children’s attention potentially decreases as the parents decide to divorce. The article expresses the emotions, and it reminisces the feeling of how the factors of divorce cause the amount of stress and obligation of divorce towards the child’s behavior. This causes children to be wary of their behaviors and act differently due to guilt and stress. In my opinion, parents should be involved in their child’s life; separated or together, they should pay more attention to the children’s feelings also. The parents aren’t the only ones getting hurt by the divorce. The parents get so deep into their hatred that they forget that their own children must also deal with the results. But instead of hatred, the children are also dealing with changes in their mentality and consciousness built with internal