Effects Of Divorce In Teens

Many teens don’t deal well with their parents divorce because they really don’t understand what’s happening. In many cases they think that is their fault. Many parents don’t explain what’s happeningin a way that teens can understand what’s going on. Most of them are too busy with their problems that they don’t pay much attention to their children, and that’s one of the reasons that the parentsdon’t understand the sudden change in their teens. Most of them make drastic changes in their behavior, academics, the way they dress, the way they act, their friends and in the way they treat others.This change is mostly due to psychological and emotional trauma caused by this event. Many teens going through divorce get involved in drugs, alcohol and may also end up in jail. Statistics show thatthe vast majority of teens who have entered the penitentiary system come from broken homes and that they return to the system two to three times more than teens whose parents are in a stablerelationship. School desertion is also one of the signs that the child is traumatized by the event. It’s very easy to forget the fact that when a child grows up with a fatherly and motherly figure doesn’tmatter if they’re not the actual parents and the child is raised in the ideal and normal way, the child feels in his or hers comfort zone, he feels safe and when you take one of the figures out it createsa void in the child’s life even though if the child sees the other parent on the weekends. It’s hard to grasp why the separation because to the child it isn’t very clear or easy to understand thereason for a separation. Separations are never good for a child but their even worse when a child is going thru his teens because this is when most he needs the guidance of both his parents and thoughthe child will not admit it its when most he needs both his parents because they can offer different opinions on situations and guide the child in the best way together, but when parents aren’t...