Anxiety, feelings of loneliness, low self-esteem and sadness are the most important experiences of the children “victims” of parental divorce. The negative effects are also seen in terms of school results, which are going down drastically.
Normally, children do not experience these states in the period before the separation of parents, although they are affected by what happens. Most adjustment problems occur with the divorce, informs a U.S. study conducted on 3,600 children in kindergarten, at the University of Wisconsin at Madison and published in American Sociological Review.
“Surprisingly, children do not feel the failures in the period before divorce. Since the break occurred, they are hiding behind poor school results and weaknesses in communication. Also, children who have gone through such a stage have a greater risk to internalize behavioral problems characterized by anxiety, loneliness, low self confidence and sadness”, explained in detail Sik Kim, sociologist, and leader of the study.
The mark on childhood
The childhood of the children who are going through the divorce period of their parents marks the first stage of their life. Children can be stressed by parents who start the game of assuming the blame for what happened or, worse, from the conflict of child custody. Due to changes in their lives, children can even suffer from depression.