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The Negative Effects Of Divorce On Children

 

He also said he felt like an outcast at school because he didn't have two parents that were together. His parents didn't get along after the divorce so he always felt like he was picking sides and hurting one of his parents. Many of my friends recalled at one time or another crying themselves to sleep at night. They remembered praying every night that their parents would get back together and love each other again.
             The negative effect that divorce has on children is being ignored in our society. I don't think that some parents realize the damaging effects that a divorce has on their children. Divorce might be one of the most damaging experiences that a child goes through in their life. Ten years ago, professor Jeanne Dise-Lewis conducted a survey of 700 junior high school students in which they were expected to rate events on the basis of stress (Zinsmeister, 1997). Divorce was considered the second most stressful life event, following the death of a parent or immediate family member (Zinsmeister, 1997). Divorce was considered to be more devastating to these children than the death of a friend, parental physical abuse, peer pressure or suffering serious injury (Zinsmeister, 1997). According to one statistic, up to 250,000 out of the million children a year whose parents get divorced suffer long-term emotional damage as a result of the divorce (Whitehead et al., 1997). Most parents I know would go to the ends of the earth before they would let their children be exposed to something that would cause them long-term emotional damage. For some reason parents don't consider this when they decide to divorce. If awareness about the negative effects of divorce was spread it might make a couple think twice before they make the decision to get a divorce. The couple might make another effort to work out their problems and use divorce only as a last resort.
             I believe that many divorces in America are the result of parents not making it work.


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