Growing Up In A Divorced Family

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I conducted a personal interview with my neighbor, Alexa, who grew up in a divorced family. I went over her dad’s house where she was staying for the day to ask her a few questions about growing up with divorced parents. I have known Alexa for 13 years now ever since her dad moved next door to my house after the divorce. She said she was about 4 years old when her parents got divorced. All she could remember growing up was how there was always arguing between her parents and that she was always changing different schools between elementary to middle school. Alexa said, “I went to about 4 different schools before high school and it was always so hard for me to have to start over and make new friends”. She went on to say how it was so stressful

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