Afectaciones en el desarrollo emocional en niños de 6 a 11 años de edad en familias con padres separados

Abstract

The affectation of the emotional development of the child from 6 to 11 years of age with a family of separated parents can generate inappropriate behaviors of the child such as; aggressiveness, sadness, separation anxiety, lack of appetite, frequent crying, guilt, etc., affectation that is visualized from the beginning of the separation of the parents, prolonging in the long term with the emotional instability of the child. The affectation of the emotional development of the child is complex, it decreases self-esteem, reduces cognitive capacity, they become apathetic, even more if the separation of the parents became conflictive and whoever remains with the custody of the minors exercises parental alignment (indicating to the child than the father who left home, did it because he did not love them, because he preferred other children and not his own), which encompasses children in anger, revenge, pain, guilt among others, Domestic violence is not only physical, but also psychological and emotional, which affects the emotional development of the child according to the age, personality, and temperament of the child, since at 6 years of age the child begins to understand and understand their own emotions and those of third parties. ; At 8 years to 10 years of age, the child begins to have control of his emotions and can regulate them, from the age of 11 the child enters the stage of puberty, time in which his body, mind and feelings change affecting the emotions of the child, the boy externalizes his emotions with aggressiveness, misbehavior, low grades between and more, while the girls internalize their emotional affectations, they become shy, they prefer not to socialize, they stay away from the game, they choose to exclude themselves from all types of communication factors that can lead to childhood depression or anxiety. This research was supported by scientific studies of endorsed journals, noting that currently little information regarding emotional development in children has been displayed, less if this emotional affectation is related to separation from parents, information has also been collected in A case study, a study that aims to determine the effects on emotional development in children 6 to 11 years of age with a family of separated parents, taking into account that in the Psychological field, more in clinical psychology, the emotional development of the child from Its birth is fundamental understanding that if the child has a positive upbringing, assertive communication and a positive attachment, it will grow manifesting in all its stages in its adulthood emotional self-regulation, adequate self-esteem, which will cause ease, good grades, affective stability, otherwise, a child who grows up in dysfunctional families, from separated conflicting parents, They will have a slow, inadequate emotional development, that the spark of childhood happiness will gradually fade and when they are not cared for, they will begin their adolescence with emotional overloads such as revenge, aggressiveness that sometimes culminate in addictions such as; alcohol, drugs, crime, believing that their suffering is normal, leading their children to live the same emotional disorders that he or she experienced in their childhood.