Effects of Divorce on Children

Everyone wants to discuss the impact of divorce on young children's mental health. According to a study discussed in The Guardian, parental separation is more likely to harm the mental health of children if they are of the age of at least 7 when the split occurs. Now, minors aged between 7 and 14 at the time of the split exhibit a 16% risk in emotional problems, such as anxiety and depressive symptoms, and an 8% increase in conduct disorders.

In contrast, children whose parents separate when they are between 3 and 7 are not more likely to develop such problems either immediately or by the age of 14 than those still living with both parents.

The 11 to 14 window makes good sense. This is the window where there's still an element of resiliency or the inability to fully comprehend or absorb what's going on in their surroundings.

Kids just get angry In higher age windows about their parents divorce because not being particularly empathetic at the time.

11 to 14 age is when a lot of mental health problems skyrocket. The rates were not 16% or 8%. It was a 16% increase over, so over and above. If you take average in that window, it's 16% higher.

Parents splitting up hooting and hollering and having fights in front of their kids, obviously that's not going to go over well. But even with the very amicable splits, there are challenges.It all depends upon contingencies and situations that determines the damage caused by divorce to the couple and status of children. 

Some children are strong enough to not give off to the adverse situations and vice-versa. During this type of conflictive situations a couple cannot think about what’s happening to their children. Their physical, mental and emotional status are more prone for separation and all efforts for living a peaceful life and a life of their own kind. Children are the beings who get affected cognitively which whoever can say will not outburst as something not expected from children. They may become a notorious figure of any kind and have any fates in their lives or will live a savagely depressed life with utter grief and lack of empathy. These type of children may have to live a life with all lacks and sufferings.