The infant living inside his mother’s womb may suffer from his parent’s divorce in many harmful ways (61). Once the mother’s emotions, such as rage, anxiety, or fear become too overwhelming, the infant’s nervous system may start pumping extra chemicals into his own blood stream while his adrenal glands send out a variety of emergency hormones (61).

According to Lisa B. Francke, an author and editor for the New York magazine:

The damage to the baby can be substantial if the pregnant women’s stress continues throughout pregnancy. The baby is apt to be born either prematurely or with a low birth weight. And that’s just

Some children may become sexually active due to feelings of betrayal

Along with anger the child may become interested in things such as drugs, alcohol, and sexual activity. The parents, spending time dealing with their pain, often do

Many children often worry about how their parent’s divorce is going to affect them in the future. Karen, a 14 year old whose parents recently split up worryingly asked, “Tell me, is it so that kids will have trouble in the future when their parents get divorced? Does this mean that my marriage will break up? I need to know” (85). Francke added that “teenagers watch closely the perceived successes or failures of their parents and the failure of divorce can signal clearly to them that they, too, will be unable to sustain love and commitment” (172).

Divorce may also cause confusion in the child when it comes to sexual activity. As the child grows up sexual activity becomes more and more complicated to him. The

She was going out with a lot of guys and she wasn’t home much. I had to take care of the baby. I had to walk him to school, walk him home, feed him lunch and dinner, even put him to bed. He wouldn’t listen to me. And I wasn’t allowed to yell at him. I really hated him, and her. (Francke 130)

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