The title of this post is misleading: Divorce is difficult and painful for everyone involved, especially kids. I've never known anyone to have a "good" divorce, in that way you have a good meal or ...

Elizabeth Marquardt is an adult child of divorced parents. In her new book, Between Two Worlds: The Inner Lives of Children of Divorce, she sets out to present a corrective to all the “happy talk” ...

When Karen McNenny was facing divorce about 15 years ago, she was afraid of what it would mean for her future: despair, debt and a lifetime of resentment, she says. At the same time, she was thinking ...

Perhaps you too have noticed the "happy talk" that sometimes attends the topic of children and divorce. "The kids? Oh, they're doing great. They think having two homes is a kick! You know kids -- they ...

I don't think that any of us who have been studying divorce over the past three decades would disagree with Elizabeth Marquardt when she says that divorce is very distressing for children ["Just Whom ...

We have all heard the term “amicable divorce,” but few people ever describe their own divorce that way. There is always pain, grief, loss, fear, anger and shame – whether you are the one who chose to ...

Nearly one-third of American children experience parental divorce before reaching adulthood. The decision to separate haunts thousands of parents every year. Most advice leans hard toward the idea ...