What psychological affects might happen to a kid if...?

Question

I'm doing a case study and I need some assistance.

Problem:
The kid's parents were divorced when he was very young, and he has no contact with his father since he was 5 years old.

Would this experience impact him more psychologically or anthropologically? And he later grows up to be a lonely and easily angered teenager. What could of affected him?

Kind of off strand... would a person reacting with a group of people be sociological or anthropological? Like a boy with friends.

Answer 1

Well, interestingly enough, he might have been a lonely and easily-angered teenager anyway. We like to presume that environment affects people, but sometimes it's their genetics. Maybe the genes that caused the father to leave and have no contact are the same genes that cause someone to be hostile. It's the 'nature versus nurture' argument. There are psychological studies of identical twins separated at birth that suggest that levels of anger in people are genetic, as are levels of compatibility, like the boy with friends.