Fifty percent of marriages in the Unites States end in divorce. Researchers continue to study how it negatively effects the children involved. Some assume that children do not endure symptoms, or will not as long as the parents split early enough in their lives. However, many consequences may occur, ranging with age, and parental dissolution can elicit long-lasting ramifications to a child’s well-being. Even children under a year old show symptoms in response to parental divorce. The most common symptoms discovered by medical professionals include irritability, increase in crying and need for physical contact, as well as acute separation anxiety. However, the effects of parental divorce do not isolate to only children under one year of age.
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These children also show separation anxiety, with an increased need for proximity to the custodial parent. ¬According to Jolene Oppawsky, writer of The Nurse Sees It First: The Effects of Parental Divorce on Children and Adolescents, children of one to three years of age may also endure “psychosomatic reactions,” such as night terrors or tics. More disturbing, children experiencing a parental divorce between the ages of three to six years may imitate behaviors performed by their parents, such as yelling and fighting. They may also implement “themes of sadness, aggression, [and] death in their play” …show more content…
In 2006, the European Archives of Psychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience published Long–Term Psychosocial Effects Of Parental Divorce, a study organized by Taina Huurre, Hanna Junkkari, and Hillevi Aro. Participants exhibited lower rates of higher education, as well as higher rates of unemployment. Additionally, a statistically higher rate of stress and distress appeared often within products on divorce, as well as a higher likelihood of first-hand experience with divorce, and a lower rate of current marriage. These adults displayed a higher risk of suffering from low self-esteem, as well as a psychiatric disorder. Most unfortunately, however, adults whose parents divorced during their childhood encountered a much higher risk of suicidal ideation, and suicide attempt (Huurre, Junkkari,
These children also show separation anxiety, with an increased need for proximity to the custodial parent. ¬According to Jolene Oppawsky, writer of The Nurse Sees It First: The Effects of Parental Divorce on Children and Adolescents, children of one to three years of age may also endure “psychosomatic reactions,” such as night terrors or tics. More disturbing, children experiencing a parental divorce between the ages of three to six years may imitate behaviors performed by their parents, such as yelling and fighting. They may also implement “themes of sadness, aggression, [and] death in their play” …show more content…
In 2006, the European Archives of Psychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience published Long–Term Psychosocial Effects Of Parental Divorce, a study organized by Taina Huurre, Hanna Junkkari, and Hillevi Aro. Participants exhibited lower rates of higher education, as well as higher rates of unemployment. Additionally, a statistically higher rate of stress and distress appeared often within products on divorce, as well as a higher likelihood of first-hand experience with divorce, and a lower rate of current marriage. These adults displayed a higher risk of suffering from low self-esteem, as well as a psychiatric disorder. Most unfortunately, however, adults whose parents divorced during their childhood encountered a much higher risk of suicidal ideation, and suicide attempt (Huurre, Junkkari,