BROKEN HOME

 

A family in which the parents are divorced or separated. A home that the both couple are separated or divorced by any reason at all is a broken home. A broken family is one that includes unhealthy or severed relationships within the family unit," explains Anderson. "They are often associated with divorce but certainly can occur in an intact family where various members are in conflict with or estranged from each other.

CAUSES OF A BROKEN HOME.

v Religion Problem: When  two people of different belief got, they tend to agreed to live together despite their different belief but as they live together and have children then the problem of which religion to chose for the kids become a problem and they will start having issues even at time the husband can later change his mind and force the wife to do his religion and if she disagree it will become a problem

v Abuse: Women are mostly affected by this. When their partner physically abuse then and they could bear it anymore they separate from their husband by getting a divorce. Domestic violence is the number key that women get a divorce.

v Infidelity: When one partner cheat and it becomes a constant issues that the party affected or feeling cheat on can get a divorce.

v Financial issues:  Women take this seriously. When the wife is the main bread winner of the family and the husband doesn’t care to help out or even support the home and goes out to enjoy life by going to club whenever he receive his salary an when he is lack of money he comes to the wife then this will become an issue.

v Communication Problem: when couples find it difficult to understand each other and they fight at everything then they can separate for peace to reign

v Trust issue: some couple have trust issue in their marriage and has it grows they will have to separate to maintain peace.

 Children of broken families generally are more likely to be resource deprived, especially in female-headed households receive less intense and less consistent monitoring, all of which have been associated to mental development and academic success of a child. children from broken families showed some behavior problems such as aggressiveness, anxiety, developmental disorder, absences from school, bad-habits and attention-seeking behaviors. The emotional stress of a divorce alone can be enough to stunt your child's academic progress, but the lifestyle changes and instability of a broken family can contribute to poor educational outcomes.

The children suffer most from a broken marriage. When the father remarriage and the children stays with their mum it becomes a problem if she can’t provide for them and train them well. The children will learn to leave on their own by looking for way outside. And if the mother remarry and the children have to stay with their grandmother or grandfather this might affect the character of the children has they are growing up.

HOW TO FIX A BROKEN HOME

·       Work on yourself esteem

·       Work on your anger

·       Face the problem together

·       Talk more on things that might cause problem

·       Discuss on your finances

·       Support each other

·       Know each other strength and weakness

·       Love each other even in anger

·       Think about your children before taken any decision that might affect them

·       Always choose peace above war in marriage.

Having a broken home affect the life of your children even you. If you don’t like how things are in your marriage talk about and let love lead.