As children, we depend greatly on our parents to meet our basic needs, to guide us, nurture us, and help shape our emotions, behaviors, and our relationships. For children, the family constitutes a highly valued context for understanding and interpreting their development as an individual. As Bjorklund and Pelligrini (2001) have argued, we are a “slow-developing, large-brained species.” The relatively large size of our brain requires a prolonged period of immaturity, therefore requiring a lot of support and care from parents (DeLoache, J., Eisenberg, N., Siegler, R. 2011). However, an adaptive consequence of this prolonged immaturity is our high level of neural plasticity and our ability to learn from experience. Growing up in a stable environment can undoubtedly result in successful development for children on many levels, just as living in an unstable environment will certainly lead to undesirable consequences. Despite large individual differences, the research of psychologists such as Erik Erikson and Sigmund Freud, among others, allows us to organize and understand the effects of long-term parental conflict on child and family development. family. Research has provided a better understanding of child development, making it possible to observe parental conflicts and relate them to children's development in many aspects. It is largely differences in socioeconomic status, culture, race, gender, and level of conflict, support, and resilience that directly affect children and other members of their families over time. . A longitudinal study of one hundred and eighty-seven children aged five and six showed us that parental separation is strongly associated with an increased rate of emotional and behavioral problems in children (Clemens,...... middle of the article ......l Journal of Behavioral Development, 22(4), 729-751. doi:10.1080/016502598384144Sarrazin, J. and Cyr, F. (2007). Children, 47(1), 77-93.Siegler, R., DeLoache, J.., & Eisenberg, N. (2011). . STADELMANN, S., PERREN, S., GROEBEN, M. and von KLITZING, K. (2010). , 92-108. doi:10.1111/j.1545-5300.2010.01310.xSturge-Apple, M., Davies, PT, & Cummings, EM (2006). on the emotional unavailability of parents and the children's adaptation difficulties. Child Development, 77(6), 1623-1641. doi:10.1111/j.1467-8624.2006.00963.x