The document discusses the causes of divorce and its effects on children. It states that while people have a right to pursue happiness, divorce often harms children. The main causes of divorce mentioned are increased independence of women giving them more economic opportunities, and financial/economic difficulties straining marriages. Effects on children include major upheaval and stress as divorce is a profound life event that can shatter their stability.

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Causes of divorce and its effects on child’s development
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Introduction
No matter what others might say, we all have the right to the pursuit of happiness.
Happiness and tranquility in life is the purpose and the basic right of human being. Some
individuals should not have married each other, if they do not feel comfortable. Often, results
came in shape of divorce. At the end, child get suffered, and his life become miserable.
Divorce is more specifically a legal action between two married couples for
terminating/ending their relationship. Every year, thousands of Canadians children get
suffered due to parent’s divorce. According to statistical data published by Erin Duffin
(2019), it has been figured out that about 2.64 Million people have obtained legal divorce
within year gap of 2000-2018 in Canada. The intensifications in divorce rates have been
among the most noticeable features of family change in recent decades. Some have observed
this as a sign of moral and social disruption with a potential to destroy the society’s
foundations and shatter family institution itself. Others have reveled divorces as signaling
suffocating social mores and increased individual liberty. Parent’s Divorce is one of the most
profound life events and can cause major upheaval and stress in Child’s life. It is no wonder
that family instability and divorce have attracted wide attention among social philosophers
and scientists. In the context of this paper, many reasons contributing to the viable causes
behind obtaining divorce were mentioned. Moreover, the notion of divorce effect on Child
development was also the scope this study.

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Causes of Parent’s Divorce
Despite the emphasis made by social scientist and theorists to shape our knowledge
regarding divorce, there is no viable reason present for why people diverse? It is because
divorce is not happening due to one factor, there are many factors contribute to it. Moreover,
it cannot be predicted on the day when the people bind in a marriage relation. In this research,
several causes on multiple levels will interact to bring about the break of a family.
1) Independence of women:
Over the years, it has been observed that the women independence is a basic reason
which influenced divorce. Ermisch (1986) found that divorce often happen when women
had the practice of following their own career and working. This swayed women's earning
capability and gave considerable risk to her marital life, especially in the presence of
other problems as well. Hence it was concluded by Ciscel and Heath and Ciscel (1996)
that many women lingered in marriage just because they had no had no other way but to
do so having no economical opporutunities and earning power to become independent
from their spouses. In other words, Divorce between martial couples often affected their
total income which is one of the common reasons why many couples bind in a marriage
relation, to prevent this from occurring.
Over recent years, it has been revealed that women have filed more petitions for
divorce as compared to man, despite their profound attachments to their children .
2) Financial and Economic Factors:
Economic factor is a core of every evil in the society. Most of couples are stuck in
financial strains and could not compensate against the daily expenditures. At the end, they
finally end up their marriages with divorce. Frequently,

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