Offspring of the divorce's victim

Basem Abbas Al Ubaidi Basem Abbas Al Ubaidi

doi:10.30574/msabp.2021.2.2.0018

Abstract

Children of divorce may suffer from emotional, academic, and social problems. Children of divorce need primary and social worker's attention. Children of divorce may have many social, emotional scars, which easily bleeds due to the unhealthy healing process.

Highlights

There is a significant increase in divorces worldwide, which substantially dramatically affects particular children [1]
The psychological impact on CODs depends on the intensity, frequency, and duration of the family disharmony
The psychological impact will decrease on their quality of the family and or social support system [11]

Summary

Introduction

There is a significant increase in divorces worldwide, which substantially dramatically affects particular children [1]. CODs will have more significant disruptive behaviors (e.g., anger, hostility, refusals to talk, or reluctance to see another parent) They may have acting out symptoms, withdraw from social activities, and oppositional with authority figures [1]. Victims of CODs may suffer in their future adulthood from increased incidence of depressive mood, lower selfesteem, emotional distress, poverty, and academic failure. They may have a higher incidence of early and risky sexual activity, illegal childbirth and earlier marriage, marital disharmony, and a high divorce rate [2,3,4,5,6]. Other longitudinal studies on the separated couple found a causal effect on offspring functioning or malfunctioning before and after the separation [7,8,9,10]

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