The Effect of Divorce on Family Life

Nowadays, divorce cases become more and more. Moreover, most actress or actors who have married are getting divorce. They do not care about their status which has to be public figure for other people. They do not care about the effects that will be appeared when they do that for their family or people around them. Furthermore, there are several effects of divorce on family life. However, I would like to explain just three effects of divorce on family life.

First of all, the effect of divorce on family life will give impact to children’s psyches. For families who have had children, of course the divorce will give effects for children’s psyches because they become traumatic of love. Not only do they have little affection from their parents, but they also will think that there is no affection between their parents that they love. Due to that, the children will unbelief to the word that has named ‘love’. Moreover, it can give result in their life in the future. Maybe they will be afraid to make a relationship or a family.

Second, making lessen relation on family is also the effect of divorce on family life. For instance, one family comes from two families which are different. They become one family because the relationship has been made when they got married. On the other hand, if they divorce, maybe their relationship that they have been made with another family will tear down.  Moreover, they will be an enemy for each other. And they will not have any relationship.

The last effect that comes from the divorce on family life is the changing of personality from the doers. The doers will get a title ‘widow’ or ‘widower’. Maybe in other countries, there will be no problem with those titles. However, in Indonesia those titles have lots of influences for person who has one of those titles especially for person who has title as ‘widow’ because people usually think that the title usually identical with negative perception. Furthermore, the family will ashamed with those titles. Since that maybe there is little or big changing that will influence their personality. And that is why the titles above become one of the effects of divorce on family life.

To conclude, not only giving lots of effects for family and people around, but there is also no benefit from divorce. For people who will divorce, please think thoroughly about people’s feeling around you, especially your family and your children (if you have). Be sure with your relationship with your spouse. Make your relationship warmly with lots of jokes. If there is a problem, compromising will be the right way to solve your problem.

By Rainy Endah L