![]() Parental modeling in divorce diminishes many children’s capacity for stable marriage later in life, though some children may react by doubling their efforts to ensure stability.įor instance, compared to students from intact families, college students from divorced families use violence more frequently to resolve conflict and are more likely to be aggressive and physically violent with their friends, male or female. The difference between marriages that remain intact and those that end in divorce lies primarily in the couple’s ability to handle marital conflict and move towards agreement. Behavior at Schoolĭivorce diminishes children’s capacity to handle conflict. While problem behavior increases immediately following the divorce among boys whose parents divorced while they were in middle school, their problem behavior steadily decreases in the year after the divorce. 9) Boys whose parents divorced while they were in elementary school tend to develop problems in the years following their parents’ separation. 8) Other studies have confirmed that children of divorced parents exhibit more behavioral problems than do children from intact families. 7) Children of divorced families are more than twice as likely to drop out of high school than children from intact families. 6) Children who engage in fighting and stealing at school are far more likely to come from broken homes than are well-behaved children. 5) These children are more likely to perceive their social milieu as unpredictable and uncontrollable. 4)ĭuring a divorce, conflict between parents is often accompanied by less affection, less responsiveness, and more inclination to punish their children, which leaves their children feeling emotionally insecure. ![]() Even in intact families that have low to medium levels of conflict, children still have “fewer behavior problems than those in the high-conflict, disrupted families.” 2) Another study suggests that parental conflict affects the outcomes of children’s behavior problems, regardless of parents’ marital status, and sometimes “there is no statistical difference in the level of behavior problems observed for children whose parents separated or divorced and for children whose parents remained together.” 3) Overall, young adults are best off when raised by two continuously married parents with a low-conflict relationship. Children of divorced or separated parents exhibit increased behavioral problems, 1) and the marital conflict that accompanies parents’ divorce places the child’s social competence at risk.
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