Summary: The Negative Effects Of Divorce On Children

Today, the high school drop out rate of children with divorced parents is thirty-one percent, compared to thirteen percent for children with married parents (Wilcox). When divorces are handled in court, it is not uncommon for the judge to make biased decisions on factors such as child custody and property. An unjust divorce leads to bitterness between spouses. In many cases,

Married couples encounter a lot of problems during their marriage, which leads to divorce and just accepts it as a way of life. Divorce is now a common act that people do when they no longer want to be married But during that decision making process parents tend to forget that it’s different when children are involved and the damage they are doing to the children and the psychological, social academical and emotional distress they will go through at some point in their lives. For this reason, we need to study the negative effects of divorce on children. Divorce causes children to think that they’re the victim or the cause of their parent’s separation; it will even cause children to think that their parents do not love them.

Underage drinking is illegal yet very popular. There are many different reasons why teenagers drink. Some teenagers drink to appear cool, while on the other hand others drink for stress related issues. It has now become a rampant activity being done by many teenagers of today’s generation. Some teenagers sneak and drink at parties and other places without their parents even knowing.

Today there is no longer a typical family and society now accepts all forms of a family unit. In my opinion the

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Child custody can have a positive and a negative outcome on children. Most people lean more towards the idea that child custody has a negative impact because of what caused it in the first place, divorce. When parents can not come to the point where they can agree on where the child should live and other important decisions in the child’s life, guidance is required. This happens in mediation and or going to court. Generally, decisions are based on the child’s best interest (“Joint Custody”).

Studies show that at 700,000 children are abused every year! The definition of child abuse, according to Childhelp.org is, "When a parent or caregiver, whether through action or failure to act, causes injury, death, emotional harm or risk of serious harm to a child." This affects children by taking away their childhood and making them grow up before their time. Child abuse is present in the book The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton when Ponyboy tells the reader about Johnny, and how his parents abuse him. There are also fragments of Johnny talking about being abused.

Binge drinking is one of our society’s greatest faults. The majority of binge drinkers are 18-20 year olds who are exercising their new freedom from their parents. They haven’t been correctly exposed to alcohol or understand how to drink responsibly in their lives. Underage and unsupervised drinking has been an epidemic in our country for far too long, even our presidents daughter has had pictures taken of her drinking underage at a college party. This type of irresponsible, binge drinking party can cause a lot of deaths in underage drinkers.

Department of State, 2012). As trafficked persons are brutalized and commodified, without support and care from their families or loved ones, without freedom, their dignity and security are usually in ruins. Many of them are found to suffer from trauma and the ones who want to relieve stress, anxiety and pain may turn out to be dependent on drugs or alcohol (O’Brien, Carpenter & Hayes, 2013). The harmful psychological impacts can be permanent throughout one’s life that is possibly ended by suicide. This is particularly true for the children being trafficked when they are still in the process of mental development.

mother had drunk too much stout, ‘gone up to the school and had him transferred from metal work to Latin. From Civic Studies to French……. . These indicators are consequences of his mother- child relationship in the first years of his life and his authoritative figures, and society in and of itself. Byatt states that his mother was drunk most of the time.

Antipsychotic medications were commonly used to treat these individuals and it usually used for a long-term basis. There were about 45% that received treatment and were younger, and homeless Sajatovic, M. (2006). Because militants enter at such a young age and experience traumatic events over the years causes symptoms that lead to bipolar disorder and longtime treatments for veterans. In the end, many veterans end up homeless, using substance abuse and suicidal.

“What is punishment? Being in jail isn't punishment, if you didn't like it on the outside. And neither is death, if it was painful to live.” (Infamous). Perry Smith was not fond of his life at all.

You brought up a subject that does not get enough attention as it deserves- the affect of incarceration on families. There is always lots of discussion and debate in the media about crime, victims of crime, police, and prisons. I do not think we hear nearly enough about the detrimental affect that incarceration has on families and communities. These effects can be great and long-lasting. Like you mentioned, one negative result is the loss of income from a missing, incarcerated parent.