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According to the document: 1) A child's development and behavior can be affected by factors like the severity of their parents' relationship problems or divorce, and the quality of the parent-child relationship. 2) Experiencing parental divorce or a broken home can make it harder for children to develop social skills and achieve developmental milestones, and can even cause depression depending on the child's age. 3) However, keeping parents married may not always be in the child's best interest either, as much depends on the individual family situation.

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According to Youth Voices, behavior can be affected by a number of things, but a

big factor may be the parents. Depending on the severity of a broken home, the parent’s
relationship with each other, as well as their children, can affect how their children
behave and may even develop in the house and especially in the school. It may affect
the academic performance of their son/daughter. This doesn’t mean that a parent’s
divorce can make it so a child can never climb steps or hop on one foot, but it can make
it harder for children to develop social skills and may even set back their achievements.
Depending on a child’s age, the separation of their parents may cause extreme stress
and in the worst case, even depression. However, keeping the parent’s married might
not be in the best interest either, depending on the family’s situation. Based on an
experience of coming from a broken home or family, “I have never suffered from
developmental or behavioral problems. However, this may be due to my parents living
in the same house after the divorce, the age I was when my parents got divorced, and
also the relationship I had with both of my parents, as well as the relationship they had
with each other.” Parents have an impact on their children, married or not. However, on
average, broken homes have a significant impact on children and may even continue
throughout their life.

To understand how a broken home affects child development/ behavior, it is

important to understand how children should normally develop/ behave. Although a
child may behave and develop at their own rate, there are guidelines for a child’s
development, as well as behavior, when it comes to their mental ability. The image
above shows the developmental skills that a child should have at the given ages, many
of which have to do with motor and social skills. As seen in the diagram, children need
to develop things they can do to help them do simple tasks, like brushing their teeth and
walking heel to toe. Developing motor skills will make a child more independent, seeing
how they will be moving and grasping things on their own. So this is a no-brainer:
children need to develop motor skills. But another thing a child needs to develop, also
shown by the chart, is social skills. This would include naming things and understanding
words. Barbara Solomon, a social worker with a Bachelor of Science degree in
psychology and a Ph.D. from the University of Southern California, comments how “a
lack of social abilities could signal a medical or developmental problem” (Solomon,
2004). So not only motor skills are an issue at a young age but so are social skills.