PHYSICAL EFFECTS

Family conflictS will lead to a profound effectS on teenagers. Children usually are the one who greatly affected from the family issues. I would like to diScuss about physical effects on teenagers or children due to the family problems.

First of all, teenagers if often expose to the family conflicts may experience health problems. Because of the conflict happened, children do not sleep well or we consider it as insomnia. Some teens may develop eating disorders and fall into depression as a consequence. This situation will totally affect their overall health. If the tension continues for a long time, teenagers will lose even more sleep, and they begin to get sick and run down. Besides that, there is strong evidence that teenagers growing up in conflicted family often suffer from long-term health problems including anxiety disorder, heart disease, cancer and even early death.

In addition, the conflict of family will affect children educational performance. Children who family is in conflict often do poorly in school. Family problems can influence a teenager’s school attendance and tardiness. Besides that,children also have difficult time concentrating in school because the problem of family always bothering them. Therefore, teens from problem family are more likely to drop out of school and fail to gradute. Conflicts between family members can cause teenagers to act among their peers. Teens from conflict family are more likely to have behavioral problems in school than the teens from households with less conflict.

By the way, children from problem families are much likely to develop habits of smoking, drug use, and alcohol consumption. Besides that , they tend to become more sexually active. Research prove that, teens from dysfunctional family are much more likely to get pregnant. May be we can said that children involve in such risky behavior because they are too emotional, depress or even they want to arouse the attention of parents. The most serious risky behavior due to the conflicst between family members is teenagers commit suicide and self mutilation to escape from the problems that they faced in family. What a pity!

In conclusion, we should not underestimate the conflicts in family. It will strongly affect teenagers life!