Effects Of Divorce On Teenagers

Divorce and Effects on Teenagers Divorce and the impact on teenagers can be very painful. How does divorce actually affect a teenagers’ life? My son was a teenager during my divorce with his father and he felt angry, sad and even had problems in school. Although teenagers have no control of their parents’ choices when it comes to divorce, they do have feelings of anger, sadness, they have to go between two households and they even have issues in school when their grades begin to go down.
Most teenagers feel angry toward everyone when it comes to their parents getting a divorce. They would feel this way is because the impression they have is that they are the reason the divorce is happening, even though they are usually not the cause of …show more content…
They do not always have the choice of when they are with a certain parent and they can end up being depressed, sad as well as angry. The teenager may be with a different parent every week, just on weekends or every other weekend. The authors explain that “Divorcing families often must decide who will have custody or guardianship of the children.” (Despres, Griffin, Kittleson 44). The teenagers can become confused going from house to house they have to get used to the rules in the separate homes as well as the things that they will be provided with or the things that can or cannot be afforded by the particular parent. In the beginning one parent may even be staying in a hotel, possibly with a friend, with the person that they left their spouse for or with another family member so the teenager has to be able to accept those arrangements as well. In the process of going between two households, their main furniture may remain at one parents and then they will either be staying on the couch, floor, air mattress or even have different furniture at the residence of the other parent. It was difficult for my son to go between the two homes, especially in the beginning because his father was staying at his mother’s …show more content…
They will get into trouble and their grades will go down. When the teenagers see that their parents are having issues, they have a tendency to let their school work go because they do not care about anything. The teenager possibly start disruptions in class and become negative all the time since they are angry. Regrettably some teenagers will begin to hang with the wrong crowd and begin to get into all sorts of trouble which may result in use of drugs, drinking and end up having to deal with law enforcement. Thankfully, not all teenagers get mixed with the wrong crowd and get into trouble. Luckily, in most schools there are social workers that will talk with the teenagers and help them cope with everything that is going on. Unfortunately, not all teens will want to open up to a social worker. Considering my son had an awesome social worker during his four years of high school, she would meet him at the school and talk with him, she would even help him with schoolwork if he needed it. She kept an eye on his grades as well as I did, she was there for him whenever he needed to speak with her or would let him know what day she would be on campus. That wonderful social worker was there for him his Senior year, which was a rough year. She made sure that he had enough credits to graduate, she even attended graduation since she had five other students she worked with graduating that