Introduction-

          Family is an important part of society. And it has a significant contribution in the healthy upbringing of the future generations. However, with the advancement of socio-cultural, economic, psychological complexity the structural equilibrium of the society used to be tempered and the single unit of family gets broken. 

What is a broken family?-

           The term broken family hints at the split of a family. The reasons may be various. But,ultimately, it leads to some crisis or problems. As a result, the members of the family move for separation. This concept of broken family can further be divided as single-parent families, step families, or blended families. Even the death of any member can experience the insecurities of a broken family. 

Causes of broken family-

         Most of the time, the parents of the family get into the knot of arguments that step forward the issues of divorce. Trust and love are the key factors of any healthy relationship. In this thoroughly materialistic world, people are sometime overpowered by the greediness and lust for money. The couples don't get enough time to share and to talk about their problems. This leads to more misinterpretation and loss of trust. They fail to keep aside their huge ego to search the substance that may work for their relation. 

This inability to get over the problems of the relationship make them consider themselves as incompatible for each other. Even there are some psychological issues. If your partner is a narcissist, your marriage is bound to see the face of divorce. Because the velocity of such toxic person is too heavy to go on. Another reasons that may lead to broken family are abuse and addiction. Sometime, the husbands or the wives remain involved into the extra marital affairs. And that breeds conflicts between the couple. The relatives of each party are sometimes to be blamed for the broken families to breath in. However, the causes are many, but the negative emotions,caused by it,have an overwhelming effect, specially on the children. 

Effects of a broken family-

         In most of the cases,the children used to feel depressed due to the divorce of the parents. And this emotional turmoil may last for several years along with some inevitable effects in respect of the overall development of the children. They sometime crave for the feeling of protection, they used to get from both of the parents. But the absence of one parent makes them feel insecure. Consequently, they do struggle to cope with the new home environment and their academic development is slowed down. The emotional distress and anxiety deter them to be involved in any positive social engagement. 

Some of them react aggressively and don't wish to socialise. The cynical attitude instilled in them since childhood, prevents them to believe anybody. Most importantly, many children, belong to such family, suffer from low-esteem. The children who are unable to face such psychological, emotional challenges and try to bottle up their negative emotions, even commit suicide. 

Conclusion-

          However, in the name of the children, to endure a broken rotten relationship, does not add any constructive significance, value to the life of your child. The children suffer no less in that case too. So,it is better to move on separately than to be in constant fight. Better to talk to your children openly about your problems and include them as a part of your own decision. Children do understand everything in their own way and this will have lesser impact on them.