BOŞANMIŞ ERKEKLERİN YAŞAMIŞ OLDUKLARI PSİKO-SOSYAL SORUNLAR
PSYCHO-SOCIAL PROBLEMS OF DIVORCED FATHERS

Summary/Abstract: Divorce is considered as form a finalization of the family life. The purpose of this study is to conduct a systematic review about divorced man’s psycho-social problems. One of the main problems appeared that divorced fathers have difficulties to see their children and maintain their relationships. The mothers, who has the custody of their children, hinders and cause problems in order to not show the children to their fathers. Even sometimes mothers moves out of the city to punish the fathers and stop the father-child relationship and communication. This cause a serious of multiple problems for fathers as well as children. By keeping the fathers away, the mothers also punishes their children. Thus, this may cause some serious social and psychological problems for children in the long term. Children who grow up in tense and aggressive environments tends to show behavioral and emotional problems. The same thing is also true for the fathers. Fathers are not immune of psychological problems. They also have to take the negative consequences of the divorce. They have to deal with the social stigma and psychological aftereffects of the divorce. On the other hand, on the contrary of the popular belief, the research showed that the father who has received the custody of their children, were also able to take care of their children and provide quality of life for their children as much as their mother or even better than them.

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