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Parent-Child Relationships

When parents divorce each other, another sort of divorce occurs between the parents and their children. The primary effect of divorce (and of the parental conflict that precedes the divorce) is a decline in the relationship between parent and child. Immediately after a divorce, most parents have two sets of problems: their adjustment to their own intrapsychic conflicts and to their role as a divorced parent. The stress of divorce tends to weaken and even damage the parent-child relationship for divorced mothers.

1.1 Support

Children of divorced parents rated the support they received from home much lower than children of intact homes, and these negative ratings become more pronounced by the time children are in high school and college.

Children in divorced families receive less emotional support, financial assistance, and practical help from their parents. Divorced homes show a decrease in language stimulation, pride, affection, stimulation of academic behavior, encouragement of social maturity, and warmth directed towards the children. The presence of fewer toys and games is common, as is an increase in physical punishment. Though some studies show that parental divorce itself may not affect parenting, it often leads to worry, exhaustion, and stress for parents. These factors affect both parenting and parental control. Thus, divorce and separation result in less caring and more overprotective parenting during the adolescent years.

1.2 Trust

Though the childs ability to trust their parents, close friends, and others is strongly linked to positive parent-teen relationships regardless of parental divorce, parental divorce makes it more difficult for children to trust their parents, while a decline in the closeness of the parent-child relationship mediates much of the association between parental divorce, marital discord, and offsprings psychological wellbeing in adulthood.

1.3 Childs Early Departure from Home

Children of separated parents move away from their families of origin in greater proportions and earlier than children of intact marriages due to low levels of family cohesion and harmony. The greater the unhappiness in their parents marriage, the earlier children leave home to get married, cohabit, or live on their own. Some children who experience marital disruption in adolescence may leave home at such young ages that it resembles running away from home.

Compared with children living in intact, two-parent families, runaway children with stepparents are only 70 percent as likely to return home. Stepchildren are over 20 percent more likely to leave home earlier. According to Frances K. Goldscheider and Calvin Goldscheider, children whose families gained a stepparent while they were adolescentsincrease their odds of leaving home to marry by about 100 percent.

Parent-Child Relationships

1.1 Support

1.2 Trust

1.3 Childs Early Departure from Home

Parent-Child Relationships

1.1 Support

1.2 Trust

1.3 Childs Early Departure from Home

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