Children & Divorce

Children and divorce are two things that just dont go together. When I was 13, my parents divorced, and it competely destroyed me. For a while, I went off the rails, and got into a lot of trouble, both in school and out of it. Looking back, I think that I could have handled the situation a lot better, and I suppose at the time, I kind of blamed myself, even though their seperation has nothing to with the way I was. My sister took quite well, but she was much older than me, and if I am honest, she was the one that got me through it and made me realise that my parents were different people and couldnt be together any more. My brother was only 4 when my parents divorced, so ...  Read the complete review

The effect of divorce on children has long been a debated question. I know about the effects of this because I have been through it as an adult. However, I have also been through the effects that warring parents have on growing children, as a child. The most important thing for the children when a marriage ends, is that they know that the whole mess is nothing to do with them. They have done nothing wrong. They also need to be reassured that both parents love them although they may not be getting along very well themselves. I am a great believer in letting older children know what is going on and not keeping ...  Read the complete review

I would like to put a different side across to this subject. I am married to a divourcee. I met my husband when he had a 3 year old girl and a 6 year old boy. His marriage had already ended, but it was a messy end, and unfortunately the kids were suffering. I think that in an adult world it is so important to put your own views aside and concentrate on what is best for your children. After all they are the ones that you would do anything to protect, right? Unfortunately it hasnt worked that way for my husband. His ex wife has caused unlimited problems for us over the years, but instead of keeping it away from the children, she has used them in her mind games and had no ...  Read the complete review

Children and divorce.........Well, this is something that I have no personal experience of whatsoever, so I can not harp on about this too much but I have four people close to me that have had this experience all in different ways and all have had different ways of dealing with it and i thought that some of their experiences may be of help or be of interest to others. I know that over the years I have seen them all suffer in many ways or not suffer in other ways, but now I am a mother I can definatly say that I have thought of this, as although I am inlove with my husband and him with me...you never know what can happen and there have been times through out ...  Read the complete review

i cant actually remember how old i was when my parents got divorced and i dont remember a time without my stepdad so it must have been when i was quite young. i remember having quite frequent visits from my real dad at first, twice a week i believe, but then as we got older we saw him less and less. once a week turned to once a month and as he remarried, seeing us became less of a priority for him. His new wife was awful, she hated kids so we tried to avoid her whenever possible but this meant not seeing our dad.Either way, we lost out. back at home things were plodding along nicely with mum, stepdad and now new baby brother, we moved house and gradually realised our dad ...  Read the complete review