The Cold Hard Truth

http://www.thedailyreporter.com/communities/coldwater/x31869374/First-in-Print-Why-is-America-s-divorce-rate-the-highest-in-the-world

This news article has a quote that explains my point of view perfectly:

Michael Reagan, the son of Ronald Reagan and Jane Wyman, wrote of his parents’ divorce:

“Divorce is where two adults take everything that matters to a child — the child’s home, family, security, and sense of being loved and protected — and they smash it all up, leave it in ruins on the floor, then walk out and leave the child to clean up the mess.”   

Children are left with a sense of resposibility for the divorce that infulences almost everything they do in the future. The rates in America are the highest in civilized world for a variety of reasons, but the devastation created goes almost un-noticed until it is too late.

In Her own Terms

http://www.abc.net.au/dimensions/dimensions_people/Transcripts/s828444.htm

This article/interview sums it up pretty nicely.  When a divorce occurs the adults do stop to think how the kids lives will change, but I don't think they fully comprehend the psychological changes the children go through. As this young girls says, seven years later she is still being affected. A separation changes the very make-up of a child's psyche, to the point they cannot be the person they would have been had the divorce not happened. If we all stopped to think of the real issues children face through a divorce, I think we would all make different choices ans try not to be as selfish as we have proven to be.

Divorce Today

http://www.abc.net.au/unleashed/2732542.html


Divorce affects children in more ways than one.  The reason for divorce greatly determines how children are affected, but regardless of the reason children are affected.  When there is violence in the parental relationship, children can become aggressive and take it out on others.  There are psychological, emotional, and physical affects that take place. Unfortunately, the law does not always side with the hurting people involved.