When a couple divorces, it changes everything for the family involved! That’s a pretty easy assumption to make, with little stretch of the imagination.

Not only is the family divided between two worlds as far as where they physically live. But the children are divided in how they emotionally live between the two worlds where their parents live.

For a lot of them the question is, “How do you love them each without causing problems with one or the other?” How do you juggle their differing life-styles and approaches to how they treat you and straddle their “divided” world?

As author Elizabeth Marquardt says,

“Children of divorced parents are more apt than those living in intact families to feel divided between two homes with different values. They’re asked to keep secrets about the different households. They’re left without clear guidance on what’s right and what’s wrong, turning instead to friends and siblings. And they’re ‘more apt to struggle with loss, isolation, loneliness and suffering.’”

To learn more about this, the ministry of Family Life Today has posted an article on their web site that you may be interested in reading. To do so, please click onto the link below:

• A CHILDHOOD LIVED BETWEEN TWO WORLDS

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