Deal With Divorce - Free Divorce Advice to Help You and Your Children

It’s easy to think of our children as vulnerable and at risk from the effects of divorce, teens included. They’re at an age when they’re forming a strong sense of identity. Will divorce hamper this important process? Not necessarily, according to a study excerpt I came across today.

It suggests that rather than falling victim to divorce, teens can (and often do) manipulate the situation to their advantage. That in this way, divorce is an opportunity for teens to establish and assert their identity, and gain a new found sense of authority. Continue reading

Parents worry about how divorce will affect their children but it’s easy to forget how resilient – and astute – children can be. At the end of the day, via some tears and tantrums, they are capable of accepting your decision to divorce.

The more children accept divorce, the less divorce affects children. However, their acceptance depends on two things. Firstly, how well you communicate with your children and secondly, whether or not your decision to divorce makes sense in their black-and-white world. Continue reading

There are thousands of studies and statistics relating to the effects of divorce on children. In most cases, the outlook is pretty gloomy, making the decision to divorce that much more difficult for people with children.

There’s no doubt that children of divorce do experience emotional and behavioural problems. What troubles me is these studies and statistics give the impression that divorce is solely responsible for those problems.

I think this is unrealistic. And I think it’s dangerously misleading for people trying to do the right thing by their children. Continue reading