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A Study on the Effects of Divorce on the
Family Members
Vinod Kumar
M.A. NET
Sub. Sociology
ABSTRACT
Divorce affects a family emotionally as most of the impact of divorce is
observed on the children of divorced families. The children of divorced
families have to suffer a lot due to divorce as they are not able to get love
and affectionate from their parents. Divorce is not a good thing to do but in
some relationships, the circumstances become in such a way that divorce
is the last solution.
In some cases, it is observed that the children of divorced families are
teased by other children of neighborhood or even school mates. The
members of societies also behave differently with the divorced families. A
kind of distance is maintained by other relatives as well with the divorced
families. The current paper highlights the effects of divorce on the family
members.
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Divorce, Family, Members, Society
INTRODUCTION
Divorce is made between married couples in order to break the
relationship according to law. After getting divorce, both; husband and
wife; have to live separately at separate places. If the divorced couples
have any children or a number of children then the responsibility of
taking care of children is given to one of them depending on the current
situation.
Divorce is the end of beautiful relationship that is known as marriage.
Lack of better understanding between husband and wife is the major
cause of divorce. In some cases, it is observed that the husband is very
cruel and used to beat his wife on daily basis. In this kind of situation,
the decision of taking divorce is better in spite of living together as love
and feelings are the base of a beautiful and healthy relationship.
After divorce, it is very difficult for the women to take care of children as
she has no much financial support. In some cases, it is also observed
that the divorced women get into depression and sometimes, divorced
women become like a dead body as they don’t feel anything emotionally
and physically.
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The divorced women also become the burden on their parents as they
have to take care of them and their children. Also, the behavior of
children of divorced parents tends to change and in most of the cases,
their behavior becomes violent as they have to hear many bad things
from the people of the societies.
In some cases, the children of divorced parents start losing concentration
in their studies as it is very difficult for them to maintain the focus on
one thing for longer time due to emotional factors. These kinds of
children wriggle for the love from their parents for whole lives. Loneliness
is also observed in these children.
It is observed that after divorce, the women start doing job in order to be
financially independent of their parents. In that case, they have to make
a balance between their work-lives and house.
After getting divorce, it is seen that the most of the male persons do
another marriage. In case of divorced women, they don’t prefer to marry
again as their main aim is to take care of their children independently
which shows their mentality that the most of the divorced women do not
want to trust on other males for marriage. Hence, most of the divorced
women like living alone with their children.
The impact of divorce on the family members varies from short term to
longer terms as with the time all the family members tend to adjust
