The study was conducted in South Nations Nationalities Peoples RegionalrnState Sheka Zone at Masha and Tepi towns in two 2nd cycles primary andrntwo preparatory schools students. The study was conducted in an attemptrnto find out the (long and short term) psychosocial effect of parental divorcernon adolescents (age 13-18 years). A cross-sectional exploratory studiesrnsupplemented by focus group discussion were conducted. A sample ofrn60(30 females and 30 males) completed the pre-tested questionnaire.rnQualitative data were collected from focus group discussion and describedrnqualitatively. The study revealed that over all the majority of the respondents 81.14 %rnand 81.97% respectively were reported they were sUffering fromrnpsychological (anxiety and socio-emotional) problems. More specifically,rnconcerning children's manifest anxiety by sex, 77% females and 75.45%rnmale were reported they were experiencing intense anxiety feeling and therncomparison by living conditions disclosed that 77% of mother custody andrn74.6% father custody children were being experiencing similar problems.rnWith respect to duration of family divorce, most of the respondents of 1-5rnyears stay of parental separation (80.4%) agreed that they were severelyrnaffected by anxiety.rnFinally, as far as the social adjustment of the subjects concerned, most ofrnthe respondents who had longer years of parental divorce were seemrnbetter adjusted than any other group with the average of (50.4%) followedrnby female adolescents with the average / mean of 48.1 %.