Divorce and Children

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Hurt, loss, pain, and anger are some of the emotions felt by adults when they are going through an episode as difficult as divorce. They are dealing with the loss of someone with whom they have shared their most intimate secrets, and at the same time, might have possible feelings of resentment and regret. A lot of my research was conducted through reading personal stories. One of the stories that I read about at the Resolve website was about a family in Australia. The mother and oldest daughter went to Germany for vacation and when they came back the mother admitted to the father that she had met someone and wanted a divorce. The younger sister says that her father never really knew how to mentally stimulate her mother so he attempted to compensate that with material things. "He can buy the roses but he can't say the words" she said (Children 1). The two sisters were split up, one in Germany and one in Australia. They kept in touch through phone calls, but as time went on they ran out of things to say. Years ago, divorce was not a very common way of approaching unhappiness in a marriage. Presently, first marriages stand only a 55% chance of staying together (Wallerstein 67). This number continues to rise. Unfortunately, divorce hi

A lot of parents are not aware of the huge impact they have on their children. The time a parent spends with a child deeply affects how the child will interact with other children. Through quality time that is shared between a child and his or her parents, the child will naturally pick up on the parent's boundaries of what is right and wrong. These morals will be reflected throughout the rest of the child's life. When families go out to eat the children adapt to the table manners that the parents display, and when they are driving the children will someday imitate certain driving habits, such as road rage, that the parent demonstrates.

When the child begins to enter adult-hood, commitment issues are a common problem. Recently, I interviewed a student at the University of Kentucky. Her parents had been married for 20 years. Her father had cheated on her mother a couple of times with another woman. When her mother found out she was absolutely furious. However, she decided she was going to try to forgive him and make it work. They attempted to keep all of this a secret from their daughter and, at this point, the girl that I interviewed still hadn't known any of this was going on. A year went by, and her mother still could not get over what her husband had done. This past year when they told their daughter that they were going to get a divorce, they didn't feel it was necessary to tell her that her father had not been faithful. She was originally told that the divorce was for other reasons. She picked up on it anyway and was very mad when she found out what her father had done. She isn't as mad as she used to be though. She described i

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