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Topic: How "healthy" is it to stay married for the kids?

Nellie1
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posted April 18, 2000 03:18 PM

Lonelysoul,

Are you saying that their friends are more important to kids than whether their family is together? Are you claiming that kids don't care if a parent is gone as long as their friends are still there???

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They don't want anything to rock their world, so providing they
can stay in the same school and have the same friends, they don't care.

That is completely incorrect. Family is far more important to children than friends and school. Yes, kids are self-centered, and care more about their happiness than that of their parents - and parents are supposed to care more about the happiness of their kids than their own. Yet another reason to stay together. As long as the marriage is not abusive, children are almost always happier in an intact marriage.

And where exactly do you find these loving, nuturing divorced couples? It is far more typical for the kids to end up with one parent who may be loving and nuturing, but is also overworked, overstressed, and without enough money to support them properly, and another parent who cares more about his or her new partner/family than the children from the first marriage.

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