Divorce is a bigger trauma for children or the parents?

India
September 30, 2008 8:56pm CST
Divorce is a bigger trauma for the children or the parents? The couple who are going to take a divorce are already rigid in their mind that theycannot stay together.They are looking to break away from the unhappy marriage and start off afresh, but what about the children? They have not become a party to the clash between the parents, yet they have to bear the brunt. Can childen over come the trauma? Should they be subjected to this trauma?
2 responses
@wpark2419 (265)
• United States
1 Oct 08
Children are pretty resilient and can get over a lot as long as the parents deal with it right. Too many parents use their children as a way of hurting the other parent, like not allowing them visiting rights, telling them terrible things about the other parent...etc. I don't feel that people should ever stay together simply because they have kids...if two people aren't happy together the children always know. It puts lots of stress on them, and in the end it's actually easier for them if parents get divorced. As long as parents truly have the children's best interest at heart, they will be okay. Not saying that it's not hard on them, because of course it is, but they can bounce back from a lot more than people think. That's just my opinion though, for what it's worth.
@Feiyel (56)
• China
1 Oct 08
Most of the times,parents' disvoice had bad influence to their children.Maybe the children feel the unnomal family and have bad mentality,sometimes they have many character problem and couldn't get on well with other children. From many dates, we found that the commit crimes rate of children in the disvoce family are big higher thn nomal family. So many parent didn't choose to disvorce only for their children. But on the other side,if the compelete family is a bad family,also have had affection to their children' pullulation, we couldn't imagine what the child's life is if he or she live in a bad or quarreling family. So someone have to disvorce just for the children. This is only my opinion.Thanks.