The Effects of Divorce on Children Sociology Literature Review

Sociology: Literature Review Abstract Researchers have given multiple perspectives on how divorce affects children and what the family lawyer needs to do in such a scenario. The impact of divorce on the relationship of the parents with their children after years of marriage and also the impact on the children when a parent remarries were researched. The findings were that the parental system impacted the binuclear family even 20 year after the divorce exerting a strong influence of the quality of relationships within the family systems. The research indicated that children who reported their parents as cooperative also had better relationships with their nuclear family. About a third of the students whose one parent remarried said they experienced stressful situations than even the divorce itself. Of those whose both parents remarried, two thirds said that their fathers remarriage was more stressful than their mothers. If the relationship with the divorced father got worse, then the students said that they also had a str essful relationship with their nuclear family.