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Drastic Effects of Divorce on Children!

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“You can’t underestimate how traumatic divorce is for children” – Isla Fisher

As we all know divorce is the act of dissolving the marriage between two individuals for various reasons. Research states that nearly 2400 divorces happen per day in America that’s approximately 1 divorce every 36 seconds. Children are the victim in divorces without having a part of it. It is a bitter truth that society hasn’t really focussed much on this aspect till date.

Effect of divorce on children can be social, emotional and even psychological depending on the reason for divorce of their parents. Even though the physical wellbeing of children is not affected in most cases, children get stuck mentally in the process as they are not mature enough to handle it. They suddenly get affected by loneliness, frustration, helplessness, anger and a myriad of other stressful problems. All those negative feelings make their life worse and put them into a state of depression which is impossible to handle at that age. If the child is an introvert the situation gets even worse as they are anti-social. If they are mentally affected by this, they may make them lose interest in people which mostly results in suicidal thoughts, confusion, and many other serious problems. Eventually they might lose the kid in them which makes the situation even worse.

As per experts from ThreeBestRated®, a credible website to find only the best professionals who are very near you states that children with divorced parents are very low in academic performance. They tend to get furious and short-tempered in most cases. Eventually they might hate relationships because of their parents as it is always not easy to make a broken heart fall in love. 

It is always in the hands of parents in this case. They have to highly think with priority given to their children’s life. They should find ways to resolve their issues and avoid divorce. Again it is their life, They will have to part their parts if the relationship doesn’t work out. In this worst case, these children should be given special care and must be explained about the concern. Both the parents must take responsibility for the wellbeing of the child. It goes hand-in-hand. Or else, It is advised to wait until they are mature enough to understand the problem.