It can affect them physically, like their health, and their performance in school. Children can go from being A student to a D student. Some studies show that the greater impact is not the family structure but lack of expenses. Therefore, the lack of financial support from the other parent often result in the primary parent working more to provide for the family. This can affect the children because they receive improper guidance and less attention with their homework. Children with single mothers who have contact and emotional support from their fathers tend to do better in school than children who have no interaction with their fathers.
In addition, children who have and are growing up in a single parent house hold also develop self-esteem issues. Emotionally it takes a toll on them also they can become very depresses. In their minds they are thinking the reason for the separation is because of them. Instead of expressing how they are feeling they tend to shut down. That is when the low self-esteem comes the feeling of being unloved, unworthy, and