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Effects of Divorce Whenever two people interact, confl

Whenever two people interact, conflicts may arise and one person or both may want to end the relationship. This is true not only of marriage but other relationships as well. However, unlike most relationships, marriage involves civil, legal, and/or religious ties that specify if and how the relationship ends. Termination of the relationship in accord with these specifications is termed divorce and, according to Clarke-Stewart, Friedman and Koch (1990), there are well over one million divorces in America every year. Further, over 70 percent of these divorcing families have children.

Divorce is accompanied by a variety of psychoemotional and social effects on all family members. However, children can often be its greatest victims. This paper examines a sampling of the current literature on the effects of divorce on children.

Furstenberg (1990) has compiled a comprehensive review of the existing literature on divorce in America. In terms of the specific effects of divorce on children, Furstenberg (1990) reports that these can vary depending upon the ages of the child. For example, preschoolers may begin wetting the bed or stuttering. School-age children can develop fears such as being afraid to spend the night at a friend's house. Adolescents may withdraw or become over-engrossed with friends, school, or work. However, for children of any age, the disruption of the family can operate to intensify any pre-existing feelings of depression or abandonment.

Bianchi and McArthur (1991) noted that because of the high incidence of divorce and increase in the proportion of births to unmarried women, more children are spending at least a portion of childhood living with only one parent. The authors used data from the 1984 Panel of the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) to study the relationship between family structure and the economic well-being of children whose families have been disrupted by divorce.

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