DIVORCE AND DIVORCE OF EFFECTS ON CHILDREN IN EARLY CHILDHOOD
BOŞANMA VE BOŞANMANIN ERKEN ÇOCUKLUK DÖNEMİ ÇOCUKLAR ÜZERİNDEKİ ETKİLERİ

Author : Sema ÖNGÖREN
Number of pages : 73-87

Abstract

Divorce is ending marriage contract in terms of law and a complicated event that is causing division or disintegration of a family and shooking all family members spiritually. Today, the nuclear family structure is fragmented because of divorce and each of this family members are experiencing psychological trauma with a certain extent by the weight of sustaining a marriage. However, in this process, it is the children who are most affected by psychological aspect. Early childhood children give different reactions to their parents' divorce such as sadness, loneliness, decline, deny, sleep problems, school failure, social incompatibilities, anxious depressions, aggression, disobedience. Besides, after divorce children are having adaptation problems to the community in the following years due to serious problems in their personal development. Therefore, divorce has consequences for the general public rather than personal and family problems and the future of our society deeply affects our children.

Keywords

Divorce, early childhood, divorce effects

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