Hurt, loss, pain, and anger are some of the emotions felt by adults when they are going through an episode as difficult as divorce. They are dealing with the loss of someone with whom they have shared their most intimate secrets, and at the same time, might have possible feelings of resentment and regret. A lot of my research was conducted through reading personal stories. One of the stories that I read about at the Resolve website was about a family in Australia. The mother and oldest daughter went to Germany for vacation and when they came back the mother admitted to the father that she had met someone and wanted a divorce. The younger sister says that her father never really knew how to mentally stimulate her mother so he attempted to compensate that with material things. "He can buy the roses but he can't say the words" she said (Children 1). The two sisters were split up, one in Germany and one in Australia. They kept in touch through phone calls, but as time went on they ran out of things to say. Years ago, divorce was not a very common way of approaching unhappiness in a marriage. Presently, first marriages stand only a 55% chance of staying together (Wallerstein 67). This number continues to rise. Unfortunately, divorce hits children the hardest. Often, parents are so preoccupied with what is going on in their own lives that the children suffer worse from the consequences. The neglect children experience at the time of divorce can have serious long-term affects because of the lack of personal attention, the emotional instability, and the insecurities that sometimes develop when the children grow up.
             A lot of parents are not aware of the huge impact they have on their children. The time a parent spends with a child deeply affects how the child will interact with other children. Through quality time that is shared between a child and his or her parents, the child will naturally pick up on the parent's...