Marriage and divorce rude awakening #5: Kids suffer when parents fight -not necessarily from divorce

Susan Pease Gadoua

Examiner.com

Whether parents stay together or split, if there is fighting going on between them, the children will suffer. Most "pro-marriage" factions will try to tell you that divorce hurts children. Judith Wallerstein (a local Marin-based therapist) did some of the greatest misleading in her research and subsequent book entitled, The Legacy of Divorce.

Many people took her findings to heart that divorce harms children - not just in the short term but for many years to come. Without going into the obvious flaws that have already been exposed in her work, I will suffice it to say that any longitudinal study on families like this can't possibly yield accurate results because you have no way to compare these families to the alternative.

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