According to Pickhardt, (2011) Divorce is the legal process of an ending marriage. People all respond to the pain of divorce differently depending on whom we are and our stage of life. Teenagers are immune from the effects of divorce. Every teenager and every family is unique. So too are the reasons and dynamics of divorce is different. Therefore it is very hard to predict or prescribe how particular teens will respond to their parents divorcing. However, there are significantly increased low self-esteem risk factors for teens whose parents get divorced. This source is useful as it informs us that there are risk factors such as a teen physically harming themselves as a result of low self- esteem. This source is reliable as it’s from recent years. The limitation to source is that the research relates to a certain group (teenagers) as opposed to everyone (parents or grandparents)
According to Freed,(2012) an individual with low self-esteem may see themselves as inferior to others or less worthy of love, friendship, and success. They may have difficulty accepting compliments, make
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They get angry with themselves because of the divorce. The reason for the anger is due to the divorce and not accepting the situation. They sometimes take out their anger on themselves by cutting their arm so that they are left with scares and they take out their anger on other people by being rude when one tries to talk to them. There is a higher suicide rate for children of divorce than for children from normal families. A study by Larson and Larson (1990) There is no correlation found between the death of a parent and suicide of a child. The suicide seems to be triggered by being rejected by a parent. The source by Larson and Larson is not reliable because it is old. The source by (MacLeod) is reliable because it’s from recent