A family is a basic social unit consisting of parent(s) and their children. Every child has the right to a family. For a child, the family represents love, care, stability and support. Broken family relationships have a negative impact on the child's development and behavior. In some cases, it will be best for the child if the parents divorce in order to stop conflicts, tensions and a bad environment for the growth and development of the child. However, as much as divorce can have a positive effect on a child, negative consequences such as emotional problems, behavioral problems, difficulties in socialization, poor school performance and even physical problems such as sleep problems, frequent headaches, anxiety and depression are more common. There is no specific pattern of child behavior during parental divorce. How the child will react depends on a number of factors, the most important of which are the child's age and gender. The duty of parents and all institutions involved in divorce is to look after the best interests of the child. It is necessary to provide the child with formal and informal help in order to overcome this extremely difficult period for every child as easily as possible, and so that the consequences and reactions to the divorce of the parents are as short as possible and so that the child can adapt to the new situation as soon as possible. This final paper analyzes the consequences of divorce on the child's development and behavior through a review of previous research, analyzes family types and types of parenting, as well as all internalized and externalized disorders that occur as a result of parental divorce.