Running Head: DIVORCE 2
Abstract
Many times in life one may ask the question “How does divorce affect the family?” During
divorce, everything changes. Some of the attitude adjustments that parents tend to have with one
another while going through a divorce are anger, rage, resentment, and even acts of revenge. In
most cases, a child’s sense of security and safety is torn apart when both parents are not home. In
the long term perspective of children of divorced parents were found to be at risk of school
performance in childhood, as well as unemployment, unstable marriages, depression, and
economic insecurity in adulthood (Marshall, 2017). Studies have shown that approximately 35%
of children whose parents are divorced suffer psychologically, socially, and academically at some
point in their lives. In this paper, I will discuss how divorce affects the family along with the
negative and positive affects it has on the children as well as the parents.
Running Head: DIVORCE 3
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