Does parental divorce affect the children and adolescents in the family?

Does Parental Divorce Affect the Children and Adolescents in the Family?
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ABSTRACT
When parents end up in divorce, most of the people who are always connected to the relationship often get affected. Those that are mostly affected are children and adolescents because of their young age. Most of them never understand the reasons behind the divorce and how they will cope up with a single parent. This makes most of them to become rebellious while others begin to perform poorly in their academics. The relatively low maturity and innocence of children and adolescents are the main reason for their inability to cope with the stresses that are usually brought by divorce. The behaviors of children and adolescents can change from subtle to explosive, and this depends on the levels of stress and conflict among the family members. The parents, on the other hand, have a mandate of ensuring that their children are not affected wholly with their divorce processes, and this can be done through conversations that are geared towards making the duo understand that the relationship can be mended. The society also has a mandate of ensuring healing to broken families and ensuring that the children and adolescents are not left alone during such difficult times.
This paper discusses parental divorce and how it affects children and adolescents. It also highlights various remedies to divorce, and the role parents and the society can play to ensure minimal stres…