Question

The topic is Divorce (impact on children). I am required to answer the questions below.

At what age and stage does this issue typically impact a person?

What is its potential impact on a person’s development progress?

What is the impact to cognitive, social, emotional, relationship, and/or moral dimensions of development?

Answer 1

• Children look at the world differently than adults. Much of what they understand about divorce depends on their age,so the impact on the child depends upon the stage of development they are in.
• A toddler will not understand as much as a 5-year-old understands. A school-age boy will not handle his emotions the same way his teenage sister will.
• Infants do not understand anything about separation or divorce, but they do notice changes in their parents’ responses to them.nfants may experience changes in their eating or sleeping patterns.They may have bowel problems such as diarrhea or constipation, or they may spit up more frequently.Infants may seem more fretful, fearful, or anxious.
• Toddlers understand that one parent no longer lives at home, although they don’t know why.Toddlers cry more and become clingy.They have problems sleeping and experience changes in their toilet habits.Toddlers return to baby-like behavior such as demanding to be fed by their parents.
• They often feel angry or frustrated about the situation, but cannot understand or explain their feelings.Toddlers may express anger by throwing temper tantrums, acting sulky, hitting, being irritable and reckless, or withdrawing.Toddlers may start worrying about any kind of separation and may become fearful when a parent is out of sight.
• Elementary school children begin to understand what divorce means.They believe that their parents don’t love each other and know they won’t be living together any longer.
• Elementary school children may become very depressed, showing changes in eating and sleeping habits, lack of interest in life, poor concentration, crying, irritability and withdrawal, and a sense of hopelessness.They may fear abandonment, but also may worry about their parents’ future well-being as well as their own.
• Elementary school children may become extremely angry with both parents about the divorce.They may direct their anger outward, as shown in misbehavior, or inward, as shown in feelings of shame and self-blame.
• Preteens and adolescents may find their sense of independence disrupted. They may be afraid to separate from their parents or feel a strong need to align with one parent.Preteens and adolescents understand, but usually do not accept, separation or divorce.
  
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