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What Do Kids Want Parents to Know About Divorce?

Perhaps as illuminating as the GordonPoll Youth Survey(TM)’s answers are the comments respondents included when asked “In a divorce, what do kids want parents to know about their feelings?”

“The overwhelming message I received from their comments is that children want their parents to stay together, but if that’s not possible, to keep the children out of the conflict,” Dr. Gordon says. “More than anything, though, the children just want their parents to stay together.”

Among the comments survey respondents made about what kids of divorce want parents to know included:

--  "I want my parents to know that I don't love one parent more than
    another."
--  "I hate having to bounce back and forth every weekend, it gets really
    tiring."
--  "That we do want them together but we want them to be happy."
--  "That they are confused and lonely and sad."
--  "They are disappointed. And their lives will forever change. Deep
    inside they wish for normalcy, and they know they may never have it."
--  "No one can ever be perfect for you. It's a lie. So, for the sake of
    your offspring, stay together, for goodness sake!"
    

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