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How Divorce Can Impact Development | Child Development

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Emotional development refers to a child's growing ability to regulate and control emotions and to form secure relationships. My virtual child was emotionally developing.

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Before the developmental change my virtual child was fairly cooperative and followed the rules, was friendly, non-aggressive and outgoing, had good regulation of his or her emotions, and was fairly adaptable to new situations.

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What RESEARCH helped me understand or interpret the change?

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What RESEARCH helped me understand or interpret the change?

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Immediately after a separation, both children and parents may show several types of psychological maladjustment for a period that may last from 6 months to 2 years. For instance, children may be anxious, experience depression, or show sleep disturbances and phobias. Even though children most often live with their mothers following a divorce, the quality of the mother–child relationship declines in the majority of cases, often because children see themselves as caught in the middle between their mothers and fathers.

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What THEORY or THEORIST best explains the change?

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What THEORY or THEORIST best explains the change?

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Dreikurs suggested that human misbehavior is the result of not having one's basic need of belonging to, and contributing to, a social group. The child resorts to one of four mistaken goals: Attention, power, revenge, and avoidance of failure.
He says that these children will “act out” based on these four "mistaken goals." They misbehave because they desire attention. If they don't receive the attention, they move onto seeking power. If their power struggle is thwarted, they seek revenge. If revenge does not achieve the desired response, they feel inadequate.

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What was significantly different about that person after the life-changing event(s)?

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What was significantly different about that person after the life-changing event(s)?

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My virtual child over-reacts to stressful situations and can become quite upset with herself or others and needs help calming down. She is less cheerful than usual and is arguing more with me and my ex-partner.

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How My Virtual Person changed as a result of these key events

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How My Virtual Person changed as a result of these key events

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As a result, my virtual child is emotionally upset and misbehaves. At times she is nervous and unsure of herself and is more dependent on me or my ex-partner. After I ended the relationship with my ex-partner, she has developed a closer bond with me.

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Events that influenced the development of My Virtual Person

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Events that influenced the development of My Virtual Person

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Since my virtual child was 3 years old she has been overhearing some arguments me and my ex-partner have. During one argument I ended up walking out of the house in anger. My virtual child started crying, and kept asking for days if I was going to run away. Me and my ex-partner tried to calm her down, telling her that I would not run away, and not to worry.
Me and my ex-partner decided to terminate the relationship. There were a lot of arguments toward the end, but the termination went fairly smoothly and joint custody was agreed upon. We both live in the same city, and the children spend five weekdays with me, and most weekends with my ex-partner. I speak to my ex-partner fairly often about the kids, and most decisions I make have been discussed and agreed upon with my ex-partner. I try to get along pleasantly because of the kids, but we still have some arguments.