50 years later, what you didn't know about divorce
50 years later, what you didn't know about divorce
The illusion that divorce frees you from your family... is just an illusion.
Divorce does not dissolve your family, it only dissolves the couple; family responsibilities towards children remain unchanged.
Those who believed that divorce was a celebration and an escape from obligations will be disappointed. New laws on shared custody provides increasingly costly penalties, and substantial compensation to the child if a parent fails to fulfill his/her obligations.
But it is even more important to know that separated children have special needs, affection, guidance, as it will take months or years for them to get used to the new family arrangement.
Being separated parents does not make you parents with fewer responsibilities and duties.
Remember Constitutions and International Law and the duty to educate and raise children, always and in any case.
As a child of separated parents, I can tell you that divorce can make a child's life worse because not having both parents under the same roof makes everything more COMPLICATED.
Once they are far apart, parents will communicate less, often saying conflicting things, and you will be confused, or perhaps you will prematurely take on the role of leader, filling that void and lack of educational consistency.
Divorce (which its proponents said would affect 5% of families) now affects 60-70% of families in Europe!! And while for you, adults, it may be a liberation, a relief from a burden, from uncomfortable or difficult situations, for us, children, it is often a big problem, for the reasons I have explained above.
Courses and schools should be set up to teach men and women how to raise a family with seriousness and awareness, because when you bring a child into the world, well... he/she should come first, and adults second.
(signed: a child of separated parents)
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