Consequences Of Divorce

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“Consequences of Divorce”


Recent decades have been a period of rapid family change in which marital separation is consequently elevated, as is the growth in the number of stepfamilies, single parent families, and nonmarital births. Wallenstein, describes divorce as something that has become relatively common in today’s society. Some separations are called for, while others are simply an escape from an undesirable circumstance. Unfortunately, today’s adults do not feel obligated to remain in relationships. Most marriages in today’s society end in a brutal divorce that affects not only the parents but also the children as well. Children, more that adults, are faced with decisions that change their lives within twenty four hours. They are forced to sacrifice their carefree play of childhood at an early age, along with the comfort of a loving home to accommodate their parents’ absence and abandonment; consequently home has become a lonely place instead of a place of love and contentment. Children who are relative to separated families, go through life with a sense of fear in regards to trust. They find it problematical to obtain trusting relationships with their parents as well as people whom they consider to be their significant other.
As a society, we have given trust the definition of an individual’s expectations and beliefs about the reliability of others. Because parents are usually the first and most important caregivers in a child’s life, the parent-child relationship forms the early basis for a child’s developing sense of trust. Because of the increasing rates of divorce, children now days are receiving less nurturance and attention from their parents. “The separation of the parents may negatively impact the parent-child relationship affecting the quantity, quality, or timing of a parent-child interaction” (King). This can especially hold true at the time of the separation when parents might have adj...