RESPONSE TO POST 6
Running head: RESPONSE TO POST 1
Response to Posts
Student’s Name
Institutional Affiliation
Response to Posts
Student’s Name
Institutional Affiliation
Response to Post
Post #1
Rise
Children who come from families that experience divorce usually starts to develop psychological problems, which makes the child develop negative behaviors like alcohol and substance abuse. These children start experiencing mental issues like depression, anxiety, lack of self-esteem and confidence in life. It was discovered that the children who are more aggressive come from families who have experienced divorce (Siegler, 2017). This is because they have been seeing their parents argue and quarrel and tend to develop such behaviors. However, to reduce the rate of divorces parents should ensure they control their angry emotions so that they solve the arising difference between them and ensure they do not affect the mindset of their children.
Inquire
Why do children coming from families that have experienced divorce develop aggressive behavior?
What should couples do to ensure they reduce the chances of divorce which will affect their children?
Suggest
My suggestions are parents should ensure they control their angry emotions and ensure they iron out their differences while they are alone without the presence of a child. Since the mind of a child is sensitive, and children end up resulting in aggression as a method of solving conflicts with friends. This will help parents raise their children properly and show them fighting or arguing does not address any situation, but escalates the problem even further.
Elevate
According to (Siegler, 2017), parents should refrain from involving children in the middle of their arguments, it is not good since it affects the mental state of the child who starts developing aggressive behaviors some even start experiencing depression and lack of self-esteem in front of their friends, and this makes them start leading bad lives especially when they begin to use drugs and alcohol.
Post #2
Reflect
This post discusses more on the effect of divorce on children. Scientists and psychologists have found out that children living in homes where parents are in constant conflict are significantly negatively impacted (Afifi, 2012). These children start to feel a lack of self-esteem in front of their friends who talk about good things about their parents. This dramatically affects those who were born with two parents but ended up with one parent because of divorce.
Inquire
What causes conflicts between couples within a relationship?
How long do the effects of conflict between couples last and how does that affect the children?
Why should we not involve children when arguing or ironing out on pressing issues affecting our relationship?
Suggest
My suggestions are parents should not involve their emotions while discussing something affecting both of them. They should develop an effective communication system where every issue that arises is addressed and solutions they will make while being weary of the effects it will pose to their children. They should most of all learn to listen to their children as this makes them feel recognized and accepted and it will help them lead better lives.
Elevate
According to (Afifi, 2012), the extent of conflict between parents depends on their understandability on why the situation has occurred and if one of the couples does not have the ability to accept the mistakes and move on this is what leads to many families leading to divorces, some resulting to psychological sessions to seek counselling on their grappling relationship while others will have lengthy conflicts and quarrels which might take longer to be resolved.
References
Siegler, R., DeLoache, J., Eisenberg, N., Gershoff, E., Saffran, J. & Leaper, C. (2017). How children develop (5th ed.). New York, NY: Worth Publishers, Macmillan Learning.
Afifi, T. D. (2012, May 20). The impact of divorce on children: Tamara D.