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Effects of divorce. Divorce can affect both the people getting divorced and any children they may have in both the short and long term. After a divorce, the couple often experiences effects including decreased levels of happiness, [1] a change in economic status, and emotional problems. The effects on children can include academic, behavioral ...
The researchers discovered that, after parents separate, the time a mother spends with her children doubles. Children also spend three times less time with both parents and the time a father ...
Family disruption is a term referring to events that disrupt the structure of individual families. These events include divorce, legal separation, and parental death, [1] out of home placement, [2] and deployment. [2] Researchers have been studying the effects on youth for decades. Some studies suggest that juveniles who have experienced more ...
Parental alienation is a theorized process through which a child becomes estranged from one parent as the result of the psychological manipulation of another parent. [1] [2] The child's estrangement may manifest itself as fear, disrespect or hostility toward the distant parent, and may extend to additional relatives or parties.
Maternal deprivation. Maternal deprivation is a scientific term summarising the early work of psychiatrist and psychoanalyst John Bowlby on the effects of separating infants and young children from their mother (or primary caregiver). [1] Although the effect of loss of the mother on the developing child had been considered earlier by Freud and ...
Child displacement. Child displacement is the complete removal or separation of children from their parents and immediate family or settings in which they have initially been reared. Displaced children includes varying categories of children who experience separation from their families and social settings due to several varied reasons.
Split-brain or callosal syndrome is a type of disconnection syndrome when the corpus callosum connecting the two hemispheres of the brain is severed to some degree. It is an association of symptoms produced by disruption of, or interference with, the connection between the hemispheres of the brain. The surgical operation to produce this ...
Dysfunctional family. A dysfunctional family affects familial ties and creates conflicts in the same family space. A dysfunctional family is a family in which conflict, misbehavior, and often child neglect or abuse on the part of individual parents occur continuously and regularly. Children that grow up in such families may think such a ...