Not many people know this, but each year, an average of over a million children in America sadly suffer from the consequences of parental divorce, and most children born every year they will witness divorce by the age of 18. This topic is a little touchy for me, but it's also very important to address because it hits home for me. My brother and I are children who saw our parents divorce. This has probably been one of the hardest things we have ever had to deal with and I find this to be the perfect opportunity to study and research more about how and why divorce can be so hard on the children it affects. This is not only sociologically significant for science and for people around the world, but it is also personally significant for me. According to Fox News, kids whose parents divorce struggle with math, social skills and emotions like anxiety and depression for at least two years. years after the split, a new study finds. It was found that children began to struggle in several areas of their lives as soon as their parents began the divorce process. Children of divorce tend to fall behind other children in important skills such as math and social skills. Soon after, they started showing behavioral problems which is said to be a way for children to display emotions through sadness, depression and anxiety. Additionally, new research suggests that children whose parents divorce when they are very young have a harder time establishing close relationships with their parents later in life according to Huffington Post. Whether we realize it or not, the relationships we build with our parents play an important role in our lives. If you think about it, our parents are the first real relationship we all experience. What we like hu...... middle of paper ......uation of divorce. Show them that you care about what they have to say and how they feel by asking and listening. Allow children to express their honest feelings about the situation and comfort them. In this analysis, the discussion about divorce is clear and affects so many children in America on a daily basis. Along with a divorce comes many headaches, such as the process of getting one, agreeing on custody and visitation arrangements, and finalizing financial arrangements. However families may be structured, children still need a caring, loving and, above all, stable environment for the child's growth and development. Ultimately, it is not the children who should be held responsible for the situations their parents put them in. It is parents who have the responsibility to mold their children into what they should become..