Dysfunctional marriage and its impact on children psychology during youth

Abstract

The content of this work is focused on children who live and experience divorce of their parents and must react to this unpleasant situation. Theoretical part explains concept of family, marriage, divorce, which are used throughout this work. In addition to that, the work will explore deeper information about divorce, types of divorces, and reason for them. One chapter is focused on how to communicate with children about divorce. Large amount of focus is given to children?s reactions to divorce. Reactions are split to ?most important reactions?, ?emotional reactions?, ?behavioral reactions? and further into short term and long term reactions. Further to that, reactions of children based on sex and being either an only child or growing with brothers or sisters. Practical part of this work presents story of respondents who experienced divorce as well as one, who did not experience divorce but is convinced that divorce is the only solution to their unbearable family situation. Based on all stories, deeper analysis was developed to compare individual respondents