According US statistics, 50% of all North-American children will witness the divorce of their parents. Almost half of them will also see break up a parent`s second marriage. 40% of children growing up in America today are being raised without their fathers. According to emotional damage statistics teenage children of divorce are three times more likely to need psychological help within a given year. Children from divorced homes have more psychological problems, that children from which one of the parents has died.. According to suicide statistics about children and divorce children of divorce are almost twice as likely to attempt suicide than children from normal homes. So, children whose parents broke up of family relations has psychological trauma as a grief. Children display their grief by

demonstrating anger,

sense of guilt,

frequent breaking of rules

drug and alcohol abuse

Thoughts of suicide or violence

Divorce can result in not only distancing child from the parents, but also from friends and peers at school. Most of the time, the school grades suffer due to the inability of the child in concentrating on his studies at home. Studies have shown that children from a broken home, are more likely to drop out before graduating high school and are less likely to attend college.

Yes it does. Children who are misguided tend to find comfort in the wrong places and the wrong people. They tend to spend more time at their friend`s house for an example and be influenced by the wrong people like pedophiles or what not. They also tend to compare themselves to other families with 2 parents thus gaining psychological stress. Further more, having a single parent does not fully bring up he child into a just and wholly formed being and thus would have multiple short comings in their endeavors through insufficient child care.

The fact that knowing that your parents aren't getting along is in itself a disadvantage to the mind.

a divorce harm children's psychology.

Children are also often the ones that are given the least amount of

attention. Children can be severely traumatized by divorce, especially if

the divorce is a nasty one, and/or if there is a prolonged or an intense

custody battle.Some children are harmed more by divorce than others. However, all children

will be harmed by a divorce. The things that parents do and dont do will

greatly impact exactly how much a child is harmed by the divorce. In

addition, the childs gender, age, psychological health, and maturity will

also all affect how a divorce impacts a child.

Children don't like to see their parents break-up nor do they like the games where Mommy gives more presents than Daddy.