The Impact Of Divorce On Children

This paper will help answer questions that a parent might have on the best ways to tell their children that they are getting a divorce. By the end of this paper people will understand the impact a divorce has on a child. People will understand how many children go through or have gone through a divorce in the United States of America. There will always be ways to help children and possibly families go through a divorce. Divorce is a problem in America with no solution other than to try to help the children going through a divorce.

What type of impact does a divorce have on a child? Children can and will go through acute grief when put through separation and loss. Children not going through a divorce are far better off than a child going through a divorce. Those who are not going through a divorce are less likely to become as resilient and less likely able to get over harder times in their life than a child going through a divorce. Support from school, a psychologist, or just a friend helps the child going through a divorce build resilience and coping mechanisms through life. Eighty percent of children going through a divorce are given to their mothers for custody.

Roughly forty percent of the children in the United States of America go through a divorce. “Most children show strong reactions to their parents’ divorce, especially over a period of one or two years following divorce” (Hopf’13, par. 5). About twenty to twenty five percent of children going through a divorce are more likely to act out in extreme and potentially harmful ways. Roughly ten percent of children not going through a divorce act the same way as the twenty to twenty five percent who are going through a divorce do. Children who go through a divorce usually loses contact with most of their friends, family, and the parent no longer living in the home. How do the children get