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How Does Divorce Affect Children? 0
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The rise in divorce rates has brought many social problems to the lives of people affected, especially the child (who has no say in it and is the one person who is most affected). Most people think the problems created by divorce are a transient phase in the life of the child, but experts on psychological and mental health think differently; they believe it can have a lasting effect on the child’s psychological and mental health. The post-divorce trauma is exaggerated if the divorce is traumatic or if there is an intense battle for child custody. Read on to understand some of the effects of divorce on children.
The child can experience sadness, loneliness, stress and anxiety; he may have a guilty feeling or blame himself for the divorce. The emotional hurt and stress caused by the divorce may cause stress and behavioral problems at home and school.
Children can express these difficulties at home by:1- Denial of responsibility.
2- Destructive behavior and not following rules.
3- Defiance, disobedience.
4- Secluding and isolating himself from friends and family.
5- Early sexual activity, teenage pregnancy, abuse of drugs and alcohol.
6- Younger children may start bedwetting.
7- Disturbed sleep.
Divorce - not only disturbs the personal life of a child - it leads to problems at school as well; they may isolate themselves from peers and friends. Their grades suffer; they have difficulty concentrating or have behavioral problems, and are likely to drop out of school.
However, it’s not all doom for children with separated parents; you can make it less traumatic by ensuring a smooth divorce. Let your children know you both love them and teach them to accept their life without any guilt, and to progress with a positive attitude.
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Corporal Punishment continues to be the evil in today’s society, hampering long term
development of kids.
A research conducted by Canadian Medical Association Journal (CMAJ) concluded that children who go through physical punishment become aggressive in their lives, showing signs after 20 years of age. They show aggressive intent towards friends and family, and become anti-social. Dr. Joan Durrant of Department of Family Social Sciences (University of Manitoba) agrees to the fact that physical punishment is the root cause of aggression in children towards society.
In another corporal punishment intervention program where 500 families reduced physical punishment on their children found out that there was a decline in such anti-social behaviour of children. Result of the outcome is directly linked to the response of children to the improved behaviour of their parents. Several human experts have also nodded that consistent physical punishment result in externalising behaviour in human beings. The journal ‘Social Development’ also covered a story regarding harshly punitive environment leading to long-term complications in children.
Several mental health problems like anxiety, depression, use of drugs and alcohol also associate themselves with corporal punishment. Recent neuroimaging studies suggest that corporal punishment cause nervous changes, making alterations in performance on IQ tests and increasing vulnerability to drug or alcohol dependence. Several countries have abolished the social evil of physical punishment and others are following the suite, shifting attitude towards positive discipline of children.
Experts believe that physicians have vital role to play in advising parents and convincing them to go for constructive approaches to discipline. Physicians can make attempts to improve children's healthy development by educating parents on behaviour exhibited by children, suggesting positive disciplinary approach to them, recommending parenting program and referring patients to public health institutions who are in dire need of help. They are credible
personnel with influential voices for transforming social practices and regulations.
While pharmacologic agents have a proved effective in children with Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), some children have suboptimal response to a single pharmacologic agent.
A recent study by Dr. Timothy E. Wilens and colleagues, published in the January 2012 issue of the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (JAACAP), is the first randomized placebo-controlled trial designed to assess efficacy and safety of guanfacine extended release (GXR) as an adjunct to psychostimulants in children and adolescents diagnosed with ADHD who had a suboptimal response to a psychostimulant alone.
As reported in the article "A Controlled Trial of Extended-release Guanfacine and Psychostimulants for Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder," Wilens and colleagues conducted a nine week multicenter, double-blind, placebo-controlled, dose-optimization study, with participants in 59 study sites who continued their stable dose of psychostimulant given in the morning and were randomized to receive GXR in the morning, GXR in the evening, or placebo.
For both morning and evening administration of GXR, subjects receiving GXR plus a psychostimulant showed significantly greater improvement from baseline to endpoint, as measured by the ADHD-Rating Scale IV total score, compared with subjects receiving placebo plus a psychostimulant. In particular, the inattention subscale rating and the hyperactivity/ impulsivity subscales of the ADHD-RS-IV showed significantly greater improvements from baseline in subjects receiving GXR with a psychostimulant compared with subjects receiving placebo plus psychostimulant. Significant benefits of adjunctive administration were observed whether GXR was administered in the morning or evening. No new safety signals emerged after adjunctive administration of GXR with psychostimulants compared with psychostimulants alone.
Reflecting on their research findings, Wilens and colleagues stated, "The results of this study support the hypothesis that adjunctive administration of the selective alpha2A-adrenoceptoragonist, GXR, to a psychostimulant in subjects with suboptimal response to psychostimulants reduces ADHD symptoms over placebo with a psychostimulant."
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