Comments on: How to help your child understand divorce

on 6/7/2008 Divorce is wholly unhealthy to individuals and society. It's like a cancer. Want advice on helping your kid to understand divorce? Give him a dictionary and tell him to look up "divorce."

on 5/1/2008 Good effort but too simplistic and idealistic. It soumds as if what the parents have done (lack the guts and desire to put the kids first) is just fine. Doesn't work that way. When we divorce (and I've gone through two) it's a permanent screwing for our children ... no matter how much we'd like to sugar coat it.

on 11/22/2005 I am a child from a divorce, and even though it has been 4 years, my parents still argue all the time. Parents, just to let you know, once you get a divorce it might be hard to move on, but you really need to. It gets really stressful on the children.

on 11/22/2005 Speaking as a child of divorce, I am now 16 years old and desperately searching for closure on why my life was suddenly, permanently, screwed up and my parents are still sticking to their "The child doesn't need to know" theory. Please parents, I urge you, as your child grows up they will start searching for closure. Don't hide it from them. Let them get the closure that they need to move on with their life.