impact of divorce

The Impact of Divorce According to “The Life Course of Children of Divorce” 50% of American children will witness their parents’ marriage fall apart. This percentage is pretty big. Children and adolescents take divorce differently; some take it harsher than others. Throughout a divorce there are many stages children experience. First, children experience guilt, then anger, depression, and lastly acceptance. Children often feel at fault for their parents’ divorce. On understandingteens.com it says children often think that if they do something better like getting good grades or doing all their chores, might help the situation, little do they know that it has nothing to do with them. It is easier to cope with if they put guilt on themselves rather trying to accept their parents’ decisions. Parents should try to help make their children understand it not their fault but almost all the time parents don’t as much time as before because of the situation. Children feel that the parent might stop loving them like they stopped loving their mother/father. Teen and children suicides are at higher rate because of divorce says Brian Willats from divorcereform.com. Children turn to anger feeling helpless, angry with the fact that they can’t control what is happening in their lives, also being stuck in the middle of fights between parents. Most kids start losing interest in school and start experimenting with drugs, alcohol and sexual activity. On document-do-it-yourself.com it states that a fatherless home is accounted for 90% of homeless/runaway children, most likely it is due to the mother working more so she cannot be there for her children or vise versa. Anger soon turns to depression, the child becoming more antisocial or overwhelming themselves with work to hide feeling. Depression causes 63% of youth suicide also on document-do-it-yourself.com. The last phase after being sad, angry, frustrated, and stressed out is accepting the divorce. Accepting the fact that