Effects of divorce on child’s academic
By Josephine Oguntoyinbo
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Divorce or separation correlate with diminishing school achievements and performances. According to research, elementary children who experiences parental divorce immediately begins to perform worse, academically than their peers from stable families. This gaps persist through elementary school.
Children from divorced home tend to have lower educational aspiration and test scores during the process of their parents’ marital disruption.
A stable family facilitates parental involvement in an adolescent child’s education. Children in a stable family participate more in school , because they discuss school activities more with their parents and they know more about their friend’s parents than those in single parents families.
Parents’ involvement can make up for the lapses in their children’s education. Fathers and mothers in stable families are more involved in their children’s home work than step fathers and step mothers.
The psychological outcome of it is that the children in pre-distrupted families(whose parent’s relationship would later dissolve) exhibit more academic, psychological, behavioural and drug related problems than children whose families remain intact.
A study equally reveals that children of divorce families are also 26 percent likely to drop out of secondary school, while suspension and expulsion are also common among this set of people.
Children from divorce home may experience more externalizing problems, such as conduct disorders, delinquency, and impulsive behaviour than children from a stable family, as two heads are better than one.
In addition to the increased behavioural problems, these children may also experience more conflict with peers after a divorce.
Students born and raised in stable homes are less likely to behave destructively (that is , disobedience to a teacher, aggressiveness with other children) than those born to single or cohabiting mothers.
Effect of this negative attitude about marriage can also leads to decreased commitment to romantic relationships, which in turn is related to unhappy relationships or instability in future
To this end, the solution to this is that no matter what may be happening, parents should try as much as possible to be tolerant, patient, and endure whatever they may be passing through, if it does not involve threat to one’s life.
Couples should manage their conflict or dispute with maturity so that it will not lead to divorce if only for the sake of their children.