Divorce: the psychological impact on children
October 18, 2026
Critical regarding mental health.
Father emotional support, protection assistance, guidance, and supervision to children
Mother: attachment, warmth, emotion love care, imagination, vocabulary.
Amato (1994) it creates difficulties in psychological development and adjustment,
A meta-analysis of research conducted by Amato and Keith, 1991
Life satisfaction.
Studies Suldo and Huebner, 2006 that level of positive parental attitude,
Parental attachment (Nickerson and Nagle, 2004) family’s socioeconomic status (Huebner, Valois, Paxton, and 2005; Seligson, Huebner and Valois, 2003 ) and positive relationships with parents ( chang, steward, and Augest,2003; Gilman and Huebner, 2006 ) increase as life satisfaction it causes increase.
Stressful events. exposure to conflict of parents. the dichotomy of love-hate discord, parent distress, remarried parents, moving to new economic resources, etc (Amato, 2000; Sandler, teim Mehta, wolchick , and Ayers , 2000).
Loneliness.
Feel less closeness to their fathers. (Guttman, and Rosenberg, 2003 ) .
Perceive less support from the father, experience more conflicts with their siblings, and perceive poorer family cohesion ( Amato, 1987) than do children with non-divorced parents.
children with divorced parents may experience increasing feelings of rejection due to the emotional distance between parents and themselves. ( Johnson, joseph ) Lavoie, and Maho,2001).