What are the effects of broken families on children?

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There are many effects on children and adults when families are broken, families can be split apart and sent many miles apart and end up not knowing who they are, or where they belong. There are some effects that are very strong and hurtful, or ones that can not do anything at all, it all depends on the person and how strong they are. The ones that hurt the most are when you have a strong relationship with one of your siblings or one of your parents and you suddenly get taken away from them. That is something you will never ever be able to get over and move on with in life. Sometimes most people think its there fault, so it hurts even more. When families are split apart usually everyone goes in separate directions, and usually the whole family looses contact with each other. Those are the effects that hurt the most, especially if your close with them.
The effects that don't hurt at all are very rare, unless you are an extremely strong person. If you initially want to be taken away from that family, then its a joy when you actually do. Or if you are abused, harassed, made fun of, or sexually abused, anything like that, you are bound to want to be away from that family as long as possible, so when you do, its almost like a large wait being lifted off of YOU personally.
(I know this really doesn't explain what it does to children, but I'm getting on that topic right now!)
The effects of breaking up a family to a child, is very hard.. A child's mother is like an adults money. That child feels like he needs his mommy everywhere he or she goes, and when that "money" is taken away, the child feels lost, cold, insecure, and like everything/everyone around them is out to hurt them. A child needs there family, without there family, there bound to be a screw up in life, and live the exact way they were raised because there gonna think its okay. There gonna use the phrase, "It's how I was raised, it must be right." I recommend that if you are someone who has troubles with your spouse, and there are children around in your household, that you do the best ya'll can to keep it out of the child's life as much as possible, because that is not what the child needs. When the child's around you, act like everything is fine. Don't let him know ya'll are having trouble. Make them happy.
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