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Originally Posted by Koapaka
Not always. My hubby was the product of one of those "we stayed together for the benefit of the kids" homes and he said it would have been MUCH easier on everyone if they had split up earlier. Sometimes we visualize something as worse than the actual truth. (Responding ONLY to the divorce part, totally agree on the press issue)
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I understand what you wrote. Bad marriages are hard on children, too.
Each situation is different. Sometimes it is better to remain together; sometimes it is better to divorce. The lesser of two evils so to speak.
That being the case I have never heard from a friend whose parents divorced when they were children that they were glad their parents divorced. On top of everything else it usually leads to financial hardship, parents fighting over custody and money, who gets the children for which holidays and/or vacation, children's performance at school dropping, children developing sometimes serious behavioral issues, one or both parents lying about the other parent and teaching their children to hate the other parent, moving and changing schools so children lose friends, custodial parents dating, eventually step parents, assimilating with the children of the step parent, and more, much more.