According to Look Upgrade, Family is the child’s first place of contact and in a world

where having broken families are no longer considered as something heartbreaking,

students of these families are usually the ones to suffer as they feel as if their world has
been turned upside down. Students who experienced going through the hardship of
their parents’ separation often would say, “others who have whole families wouldn’t
understand the feelings of someone from a broken family” and thus arguments on the
comparisons between groups of children from broken and intact families are less
illuminating than investigations of variables that may mediate post-divorce adaptation as
stated by Grych and Fincham (1992) and are usually inter-connected to each other as
analyzing those, influences the results and conclusions of each issues. The importance
of this discussion regarding the issue; even if this is a sensitive topic is to raise
awareness to the people that surrounds these students to take initiative in approaching
them to even just ask their well-being and be concerned of them as children of
separation experience lasting tension as a result of the increasing differences in their
parents values, ideas. It also involves future decisions that are essential to a child’s
growth and development could lead to further complicated problems. Mature decisions
are expected out of them regarding their beliefs and values.

The number of marriage annulment cases in the Philippines has risen by 40 percent in
the last decade with at least 22 cases filed every day, according to a report by the
Catholic bishops’ news agency (Tubeza, 2011) and with the rise of such cases relating
to separated parents, effects that deemed students into becoming prone to challenges
upon their emotional, mental and psychological stability causes them to be much more
exposed to the world they are not yet ready to venture in. The study of Corcoran (1997)
likewise state that the children’s psychological reactions to the separation of their
parents vary on three major factors: (1) relationship quality of each parent before the
separation. (2) the intensity and duration of the parental conflict, and (3) ability of
parents to focus on the needs of children in their separation. Ending a relationship can
be traumatic, chaotic, and filled with contradictory emotions especially when it comes to
parents’ separation. Clinicians and Therapists note that the children caught in the
middle of the parents’ animosity during separation have attention and concentration
problems; academic problems; anger issues and even sleep disorders