THE CONSEQUENCES OF DIVORCE ON THE FORMER PARTNERS AND THEIR CHILDREN
THE CONSEQUENCES OF DIVORCE ON THE FORMER PARTNERS AND THEIR CHILDREN

Summary/Abstract: The high rate of divorce in numerous contemporary societies, throughout the last few decades, and the impact that the separation of parents and divorce has on the former partners and on their children, have been issues addressed by numerous studies regarding the psychosocial aspects of the family. We can distinguish approaches that pathologize or trivialize divorce and its consequences, while others, that are becoming more and more numerous, seek to integrate it into the more complex system that it produces: the matrimonial system. Divorce occurs in certain objective circumstances and has several subjective motivations. Even if the conjugal relationship breaks up, the parental relationship still goes on and the two parents are responsible for the further development of their child. The separation of the parents has long, medium and short term consequences on the physical, emotional, cognitive and social development of the children involved. Not all parents manage to manage the post-divorce situation favorably and children might develop diverse affective and behavioral disorders and some parents may even pose as victims while others are alienated.

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