Effects on the Family: Cyclical Brokenness
A. Weakened Parent-Child Relationships
When parents divorce each other, another sort of divorce occurs between the parents and their children. The primary effect of divorce (and of the parental conflict that precedes the divorce) is a decline in the relationship between parent and child.6 Immediately after a divorce, most parents have two sets of problems: their adjustment to their own intrapsychic conflicts and to their role as a divorced parent. The stress of divorce damages the parent-child relationship for as many as 40 percent of divorced mothers.7 The support they receive from home is rated much lower by children of divorced parents than by children from intact homes,8 and these negative ratings become more pronounced by the time children are in high school9 and college.10
Children in divorced families receive less emotional support, financial assistance, and practical help from their parents.11 Divorced homes show a decrease in language stimulation, pride, affection, stimulation of academic behavior, encouragement of social maturity, and warmth directed towards the children. The presence of fewer toys and games is common, as is an increase in physical punishment.12 Though some studies show that parental divorce itself may not
Effects on the Family: Cyclical BrokennessA. Weakened Parent-Child RelationshipsWhen parents divorce each other, another sort of divorce occurs between the parents and their children. The primary effect of divorce (and of the parental conflict that precedes the divorce) is a decline in the relationship between parent and child.6 Immediately after a divorce, most parents have two sets of problems: their adjustment to their own intrapsychic conflicts and to their role as a divorced parent. The stress of divorce damages the parent-child relationship for as many as 40 percent of divorced mothers.7 The support they receive from home is rated much lower by children of divorced parents than by children from intact homes,8 and these negative ratings become more pronounced by the time children are in high school9 and college.10Children in divorced families receive less emotional support, financial assistance, and practical help from their parents.11 Divorced homes show a decrease in language stimulation, pride, affection, stimulation of academic behavior, encouragement of social maturity, and warmth directed towards the children. The presence of fewer toys and games is common, as is an increase in physical punishment.12 Though some studies show that parental divorce itself may not
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