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I recently read a book about children of divorce written by a “grown-up” child of divorce, Elizabeth Marquardt (Between Two Worlds: The Inner Lives of Children of Divorce). The book, published in 2005, describes the findings of a survey of 1,500 young adults from both divorced and intact families, as well as in-depth interviews with more than seventy young adults in the age-range of 18 to 35. The book points out the difficulties inherent in the lives of children whose parents have divorced, even when the parents had a “good divorce” and the children are apparently functioning well. The dominant message is that divorce has an impact on children that follows them into adulthood and sets them apart from children who grew up in intact families, regardless of the quality of the parental marriages. In other words, divorce is not to be taken lightly, as if “everything will be OK” if the divorcing parents are respectful and cooperative and the children will have an ongoing relationship with both parents. להמשך »