This topic is important for many reasons it does not just affect two people, it can truly affect whole families, in the olden days it could affect a whole community which was tight knit and relied on one another. It also often involves younger …show more content…
Children of divorced families often have fear or anxiety about their own future relationships and marriage, I know that I do. The more a child experiences divorce the more likely it is that they will be unsure about their own relationships in the future. We are all influenced by what we see and experience and divorce is one of the harder things to go through. I think that we need to have more help for children of divorced parents, something that is mandatory so that the parents cannot just decide the child is handling the situation and not bring them. Group sessions with other children of divorced families would be best as sometimes children will blame themselves or think they are alone when they are not. Growing up my brother and I often wondered and talked about what we could have done to keep our mother and his father together as we thought that maybe somehow it was our fault. We also had problems with our step mother that his father (who was my adopted father at the time), she had her own two kids and did not seem to like