Home is where there is a father, mother and a child. Home is also a place that is full of love and happiness. But what if this home experienced a conflict between the father and the mother and eventually they got divorce? Could it still be a place that is full of love and happiness? Could you still call it a home? The product of broken homes will never say yes in those questions because divorce has some negative effects to a child.
Many of our classmates or even our friends seek for love, love that they cannot feel at their homes. This is why they feel insecure to their friends that have a complete family. Being insecure, may lead them to hate everything that surrounds them. They may have a hard time at school because their problems in family affect their academics and they become lazy. They also lack confidence in facing the challenges because the persons, their parents, who make them strong, are getting divorce. Children that really grow up with a complete family are stronger both physical and emotional. Children that experience the conflict between the father and mother became stress and think that they are the reason behind the fight. This leads to the next psychological effect that divorce has on children. Depression is a major effect that divorce has on children. This is not necessarily something that occurs during the divorce, but has major effects on the later life of the child. Some parents are happy and strong enough to face the changes of their lives but if a child would be asked, divorce is so hard for them.
Most often the children responded to the announcement of the divorce with apprehensiveness or anger. Several children panicked and a great many of the younger children didn’t really believe what they had been told. Divorce has many negative effects on the psychological and social aspects of a child’s life. A child may not show initially how he or she feels about the