New research studies have also been focusing on the children’s social and emotional development. And according to the ONS, there was a rise in divorces in 1995 (Ons.gov.uk, 2013) and upon examination it was revealed that the children who would have gone through the family breakdown back, showed that the consequences of their parents’ actions had left them with serious problems. Hetherington and Kelly (2002) found that 25% of individuals who had experienced their parents’ divorce ended up with serious long-term emotional, social and psychological problems and this just shows that divorces can affect people in many different ways. Some children may grow up and never experience problems due to their parents’ divorce, but some may end up facing challenges in their …show more content…
The search was limited to papers that had been published in English in journals during January 2000 all the way to December 2015. Studies were initially excluded if they were not published or researched in England, however this exclusion criteria did not work in favour of finding relevant journals. Thus, this resulted in the decision that journals from outside of England should be included for the sake of having a wide range of options. For papers to be included they had to be mainly qualitative, focus on children and divorce, and use these words in their keywords and title. Due to the difficulty of finding interviews that fit the criteria of what is being searched for, the exclusion criteria will have to be broadened so that there is a wide range of literature to be reviewed and