Divorce versus staying together. There is a good article in the Santrock
website to look at "Should you stay together for the kids." Please support your
side of the debate. Should parents divorce or stay together. How do children of
divorced parents who remarry to with blended families from one, two, three
divorces impact a child's development.
It is my opinion that parents should not stay together for the kids. My
reasoning for this is I feel that you are doing the kids more harm by showing
them an unhappy unloving relationship than if the parents were separated. It is
possible for the child to have a great relationship with each parent separately
just as good as if they were a family. It would do a child more harm to see
constant fighting or even if there was no fighting they should be witnessing a
loving relationship between their parents.
One that shows them what to look for
in a mate and how to love another person. My parents got divorced when I was
16. I had been asking them to get divorced since I was 8. I knew that they were
both great people and I loved them both, but I knew that they were not good
together. They brought out the worst in each other, they were not living happy
lives. This was harder for me to watch then since I was 16. The divorce was
difficult and still is in the way that my family was no longer one family.
Holidays were and are difficult. However, now at 24 we just had our first
family gathering where all of my family was present. My sister and I decided
that we should not have to suffer the split family events because of our
parents divorce. We...