In a relationship, there are bound to be fights or arguments here and there, even in a healthy relationship. Even though they sound negative, fights or arguments, healthy ones that is, could actually help children learn conflict resolution and how to debate among other things. This, however, does not apply when adults start to name-call, using profanities, and even threatening to abandon as it teaches children normalization of negative communication and conversation and also unhealthy argument. Children could easily copy adults because children are like sponges who absorb their surroundings very well. This is due to the fact that children naturally develop certain behaviours through copying their caregivers during the early stages of their life

Not only that fights and arguments could teach children to develop certain behaviours, it could also affect their mental health negatively. It has been found that the children of parents who have unhealthy fights excessively tend to have low self-esteem. This is due to the fact that unhealthy fights threaten children sense of security about the family stability. Children became worried, they would wonder when the fight would be over or when will the next fight be. This kind of stressful environment is not good for children development. 

1. Emotionally

Children could feel neglected by parents who are focused more on their arguments. This could cause a strain in the parent-children relationship because of the lack of attention given or because parents project their arguments with their spouses on their children.

2. Cognitively

Children could suffer with their performance in school as they still need their parents to help them with homeworks, assignments, and school preparations. With parents being preoccupied with fighting, children would not get the support they need hence their academic performance would decrease.

3. Problems with relationship

Learning from a young age that fights in a relationship could get really ugly could potentially harm children's view on relationships. Extensive fights could cause children to not believe in relationships anymore or even create a toxic behaviour in a relationship (e.g. yelling, accusing, etc.).

4. Behaviour problem

As previously said, children are like sponges, they learn and copy easily as it is their basic instinct. Being exposed to an excessive amount of bad behaviours, children could develop the same behaviour. For example, a child hit another child during an argument because the child saw his mother hit their father whilst fighting.

5. Physical issues

It has been known that stress could cause health problems. This is true even in children. When children are faced with a stressful environment, their health will be compromised. The emotional stress that arises could cause what physicians call psychosomatic illness or symptoms. They are real physical symptoms that could take form in mild symptoms like headaches, migraines, or fever or even more severe symptoms such as gastrointestinal disturbances, insomnia, dermatitis, or even ulcers. 

6. Negative views on life

With all the negativity they are exposed to, they could develop a sense of distrust with life. Children who are used to being in a negative environment would assume that the world is bad and that no matter what positivity it has, the negativity would always win, this could include their views on themselves.