Dr. Diane Sacks, president of the Canadian Paediatric Society, joined Balance Television host Dr. Marla Shapiro to talk about helping kids cope with their parents' separation and divorce.
There are expected differences you can see depending on the age of the child during the breakup. Sacks said children begin attachment issues at a very young age, and although for infants it's primarily with the mother during nurturing and breastfeeding, there are certainly lots of attachment issues infants will do with fathers.
"I have seen small babies stop feeding and become much more irritable when divorce and separation issues come about," Sacks said. "The young child, the toddler, also begins to regress. There might be the child who was starting to train, starting to talk, and then all of a sudden you see the thumb is back in the mouth and the talking is regressing to just babbling again."
