Divorce Can Fracture Families and Have Adverse Effects on Children

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Divorce Can Fracture Families and Have Adverse Effects on Children
According to Aktar (138), divorce is the termination of a marriage contract between men and women by a legislature act or judgment in the court of law. Marriage is the foundation of the family. Thus, broken marriages iterate to broken families, and the impact of the drastic change in the unit affects all the members of the unit, including children. Although the kids in a broken family neither divorce each other nor their parents, they become the victims of circumstances of the pre, process, and post impacts of the action. Divorce disrupts the child-rearing process in the affected families, and the children have to adapt and cope with the new and different settings and lifestyles initiated by the fracture. Aktar (138) argues that the stability of a family is the foundation block for children to progress in life, and the separation of parents deprives kids of the privilege resulting in less success and happiness through their childhood to adulthood. Although some children going through the hardship of divorce can be successful, the kids growing in stable families with both parents seem to outweigh their capabilities. Hence, divorce fractures families, resulting in both short and long-term negatives effects on the affected children.
Aktar (149) claims that children from divorced families feel frustrated. The phases in frustration lead the victims to the stage of becoming emotionally needy due to the fear of being abandoned. The children grow up in limited environments due to the fear, and they end up facing difficulties in trusting the people around their lives from the mentality that they can always leave and abandon them to suffer just like in the family incidence. Although understanding the emotional feeling of a person is hard, the reaction and interaction of children from divorced marriages are limited to the desperation of getting helped since they do not have anybody to take of them. For example, the children abandoned by both parents after divorce lack the primary people who should protect and provide for them. This incidence leaves the children at a needy level and frustration since they cannot get the care they could get from their parents. Others feel that their mothers are weak because they should have stood for them despite the circumstance forcing separation (Rosenberg, 22). Although fathers may escape the blame, it is the responsibility of every parent to take care of the kids even after events like divorce. Hence, divorce and failure of both parents to take care of their children result in separation.
Aktar (139) reveals that divorce may lead to a lack of concentration and focus, iterating to poor performance and school dropout at escalated levels. The thought and reality of coming from a broken marriage affect the attention of many kids, not only in education but also all around their lives. The issue of living with either one parent or none after the divorce distracts their minds, leading to loss of concentration since their thoughts dwell on their broken families. Although the children may be attending school regularly, they do not have the desire to learn, and the iteration is poor performance (Aktar, 139...