In today's society, divorce rates are increasing at an astonishing rate. Statisticians at Divorcesource.com say rising divorce rates leave nearly fifty percent of children growing up in single-parent families. By observing the current situation in the world, we can identify children who have been exposed to divorce between parents, whether civil or violent; divorce still negatively affects the child. When parents divorce, the children are all affected, but in slightly different ways. Some children will place all the blame on themselves, while others who witness divorce will be more inclined to look for love in strange places and develop violence in their relationships. Another effect that divorce has on children is that it makes the child more likely to have difficulty maintaining a long-term relationship (Wallerstein, 1989). Young children, in particular, are unable to deal with the stress and drama of divorce and custody battles, leaving these children who experience divorce firsthand, affected the worst (Whitehead.1998). When young people are exposed to divorce disorder, the psychological, emotional, and physical damage they suffer stays with them for life and affects them negatively. Children and adults tend to see things that happen in their environment very differently. A parent's perspective on divorce is nothing like the perspective of a child caught in the middle of the feud. Parents are able to sense problems in their marriage and predict how they might escalate into dangerous or unhappy situations if left untreated. When two parents are contemplating divorce, their minds are much more mature than that of a child, so it is believed that the damage done to the child will be drastically greater. are reduced and consequently the child's chances of developing problems in the future decrease. Over a million children are affected by divorce every year and this number is constantly increasing. Divorce impacts children in surprising and devastating ways. Children exposed to divorce are likely to place all the blame on themselves, have no role model on which to base their relationship skills, thus make poor mate choices, and have difficulty establishing and maintaining relationships for the rest of their lives. All of these reasons provide evidence that children who experience the stress and trauma of divorce are affected emotionally, psychologically, and physically. In turn, the damage inflicted stays with them for the rest of their lives and will continue to cause problems.